Local Safeguarding Services

Commonly used services 

• Avon and Somerset Police - Bristol School Programme. 
• Community Safety Teams - Operation Bond - Safer Connections
• Establishment Contact Forms - Let us know who you are
• Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership - Education Reference Group
• Knowing Our Communities. 
• Safeguarding in Education Team
• Think Family Education App. 

Resources 

Education Safeguarding Contacts 2026-2027

Local Authority - Bristol City Council

Education and Skills

• IncludED - Keeping Kids in School and Information about Suspensions and Expulsions
• Hope Virtual School
• Education Welfare Service
• Children Missing Education (CME) reporting form
• Children in Employment
• Trading with Schools
• Bristol's SEND Local Offer
• Gypsy, Roma, Travellers and Boatpeople
• Translation and interpreting

Social Care

• First Response
• Children's social care teams (including Family Help)
• Adult Social Care (Care Direct)

• Bristol Children's Centres and Early Years support
• Local Authority Designated Officers (LADO)

Public Health

• Healthy Schools
• Public Health Topics

Avon and Somerset Police

• Lighthouse -  Victim and Witness Care
• Your area - find out what is going in your area and how to contact your local policing team
• Reporting an incident in a school or college
• Share information about suspected vulnerable or exploited person.
• Crime Stoppers
• Fearless (for young people)
• Bristol Schools Programme
• Prevent - National Referral Form 

Health (NHS and Community Children's Health partnership) 

Drugs and Alcohol

• Horizons Youth

Mental Health

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) and Primary Mental Health Specialists
• Be Safe - Support for children who demonstrate Harmful Sexualised Behaviour
• OTR - Off the Record - Charity and social movement
• Bristol Mental Health - Adult mental health
• Mind Bristol - Local independent mental health charity for Bristol & South Gloucestershire

Sexual Heath

• Brook
• Yuno Sexual Health
• Sexual Violence and Support Services - The Survivor Pathway

Other local organisations

Agencies working with people seeking sanctuary 

• Bristol City of Sanctuary 

Barnardo's

• BACE - Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
• ROUTES - Serious Youth Violence (SYV) and Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)
• Missing Children Support Service - Missing/run away from home

Homelessness

• Shelter

Young Carers

• Young Carers - Carers Support Centre

Youth Services

• Creative Youth Network and Targeted Youth Services
• Learning Partnership West

Victim Support Services

• Next Link
• Missing Link
• Safe Link
• One25

Bristol Hate and Discrimination Services

Home | Bristol Hate Crime and Discrimination Services (bhcds.org.uk)

• SARI - Standing Against Racism and Inequality
• Brandon Trust
• Off the Record - Freedom
• Resolve West
• Bristol Law Centre