Resources
In this section, you will find links to useful organisations, resources, publications and research to support you in your role as a Safeguarder.
Child safety and health and wellbeing
- Action for Children
- Barnardos
- CEDAR - Children Experiencing Domestic Abuse Recovery
- Children and Young People's Centre for Justice
- Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
- CELCIS
- Child Trauma Academy
- 'Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life' by Evan Stark (book)
- Community Justice Scotland
- HeadStart Kernow - Online Resilience Tool
- Heids Together (YouthLink Scotland): a wellbeing and youth work resource
- LGBT Youth
- Mental Health Foundation
- NHS Live Well
- NHS - National Trauma training programme
- NSPCC
- NSPCC Learning - Responding to a Child's Disclosure of Abuse
- Parenting Across Scotland
- Police Scotland
- Safe and Together Institute - Safe and Together Model (helping child welfare professionals become domestic violence-informed)
- Save the Children
- Scottish Attachment in Action
- Scottish Refugee Council
- Scottish Government publication - National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021
- Sexual Exploitation of Children involved in CHS (SCRA Report)
- Stop it Now - Support & resources on preventing child sexual abuse
- Trauma Information Pages
- National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- UNICEF
- 'Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men' by Lundy Bancroft (book)
- 'Why Doesn't She Just Leave? : Understanding Why Women Stay in Abuse Relationships' by Dr Oluchi Otti (book)
- Women's Aid
- Young Scot
Online safety
- DigiSafe - "a step-by-step digital safeguarding guide"
- Digital Safeguarding - training slides
- Look At Me – Teens, Sexting and Risks Report
- Online Safety Resources - Jess Peace of Mind Online
- SWGfl - safe, secure, online
- ThinkUKnow - information and resources on online safety and prevention of online child exploitation and abuse
- NSPCC - keeping children safe online
Disability
- Deafblind UK
- National Deaf Children's Society
- Different Roads - an autism resource
- Do2learn - a resource for individuals with special needs
- Hearing Link - how to communicate with a hearing-impaired person
- Henshaws - communicating with a visually-impaired child
- Speechlink Multimedia Ltd - communication games for children
- UK Government - 'Guidance : Inclusive Language : Words to Use and Avoid when Writing about Disability
- Action for Child Protection : Deliberate Information Gathering
- British Journal of Social Work : Judgements or Assumptions? The role of Analysis in Assessing Children & Young People's Needs
- Centre for Research on Children and Families (UEA) - Contact after Adoption Longitudinal Study
- Children and Young People's Centre for Justice
- Children & Young People Improvement Collaborative
- Children’s Parliament
- Children's Hearings Improvement Partnership (CHIP)
- CHIP Report - Next Steps Towards Better Hearings
- Children's Hearings Scotland (CHS)
- CHS Practice and Procedure Manual
- Clan Childlaw
- Clan Childlaw - changes to the laws on siblings applying from 26 July 2021
- Community Justice Scotland
- Families Outside
- Independent Care Review - Care Review Reports
- Independent Care Review - Composite Stories
- IRISS
- 'Keeping in Touch - Managing Contact for Looked After Children'
- Police Scotland
- Scottish Child Law Centre
- SCRA Practice Directions
- Scottish Government
- Scottish Law Society
- Scottish Youth Parliament
- Scottish Children's Reporter Administration (SCRA)
- SCRA - CSO Easy Read
- SCRA - Permanence Planning and Decision-Making for Looked After Children in Scotland
- SCRA - Sexual Exploitation of Children in CHS
- SISSA : A children's rights-based approach to involving children in decision making
- Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011
- The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) 2011 (Safeguarders: Further Provision) Regulations 2012
- The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Safeguarders Panel) Regulations 2012
- The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Rules of Procedure in Children’s Hearings) Rules 2013
- The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) 2011 (Safeguarders Panel) Amendment Regulations 2016
- Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
- The Promise
- University of Glasgow: A qualitative study of decision-making by children's panel members in Scotland
- University of Edinburgh: webinar 04/02/21 'Bringing children's rights into Scottish Law'
- University of Leicester: 'Law in Children's Lives: Briefing for All Party Parliamentary Group on Public Legal Education' (Dawn Watkins)
- University of Stirling Duncan Helm presentation 'Investigation, Analysis & Professional Decision-making'
- The Victim and Witnesses Act 2014
- Action for Children
- Care and Learning Alliance
- Centre on the Developing Child
- Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
- 'Coercive Control : How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life' by Evan Stark (book)
- Thinkuknow information and resources on online safety and prevention of online child exploitation and abuse
- Creative Education
- Deafblind UK - information and advice on living with deafblindness
- Deepr - Framework for Human Connection
- Enquire - ASL advice
- Independent Care Review - Reports
- Independent Care Review - Composite Stories
- IRISS - Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services
- National Deaf Children's Society - Resources
- NHS Live Well
- NSPCC
- Parenting Across Scotland
- Peer Support Programme (New Zealand) - Helping High Schools build student leaders
- Reach - helping children and young people understand children's rights
- Safe and Together Institute - Safe and Together Model : helping child welfare professionals become domestic violence-informed
- Save the Children
- Scottish Women's Rights Centre
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Social Care Online
- Speechlink - supporting children with speech, language and communication needs in the classroom
- The National Child Traumatic Stress Network - resources
- Trauma Information pages
- Who Cares Scotland
- 'Why does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men' by Lundy Bancroft (book)
- 'Why Doesn't She Just Leave? Understanding Why Women Stay in Abusive Relationships' by Dr Oluchi Otti (book)
- Writing Clearly and Concisely
- Young Scot
- Action for Children
- Barnardos
- Care and Learning Alliance
- CELCIS
- Centre for Research on Children and Families (UEA) - Contact after Adoption, a Longitudinal Study
- Coalition of Care and Support Providers
- Independent Care Review
- 'Keeping in Touch - Managing Contact for Looked After Children' (report)
- Scottish Attachment in Action
- Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum (Staf)
- Social Care Online
- SCRA - Permanence Planning and Decision-Making for Looked After Children in Scotland (report)
- The Fostering Network
- Who Cares? Scotland
- Children's Parliament
- Deafblind UK
- Deepr Framework for Human Connection
- Different Roads - an autism resource
- Do2learn - a resource for individuals with special needs
- Enquire - ASL advice
- Happy to Translate (HTT) - enabling organisations to engage effectively with customers who speak little or no English
- Hearing Link - how to communicate with a hearing-impaired person
- Henshaws - communicating with a visually-impaired child
- National Autistic Society
- National Deaf Children's Society - language and communication
- Raising Children.net.au - communicating well with children
- Sentence Trouble from The Communication Trust - a guide to help improve understanding and communication with children and young people, particularly those with communication needs
- TedX Talk - 'seeing behaviours as communication'
- The Communication Trust
- Voice of the Infant: best practice guidelines and infant pledge - Guidance on how to take account of infants' views and rights
A Toolbox of Communication: games and resources for direct work with children and young people
- Blob Tree - a tool to communicate with children and young people
- Social Workers Toolbox - free tools and resources for direct work with children and adults
- Speechlink - communication games
- ABCs of me
- My family and what I want to be different
- People who are Important to Me (A3)
- The Island Activity - who is important to me
- The Magic Lamp
- Virtual Communication games
- Views for my meeting (age 4-9 approx)
- Would You Rather
- Children and Young People Improvement Collaborative
- Children and Young People's Commissioner
- Children in Scotland
- Children's Parliament
- Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights
- Independent Care Review - Reports
- Independent Care Review - Composite Stories
- LGBT Youth
- Reach
- Save the Children
- Scottish Child Law Centre
- Scottish Government: Introduction to Children's Rights 10-minute tool
- Scottish Refugee Council
- Scottish Women's Rights Centre
- Scottish Youth Parliament
- Together Scotland
- UNICEF
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
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