Help Guide 3
Safeguarding Your Children
Safeguarding your children is one of the most worrisome aspects of parenting because it is our duty to care for and look after our children.
Sometimes it can feel like there are dangers everywhere, much more than when we were children.
Looking after your children with regards to everything that can harm them can be overwhelming especially like most parents you do not understand the danger of most of the threats out there.
This Help Guide has been written with you in mind in the following manner:
- Simple definitions and explanations for you to understand.
- Short and to the point.
- Relevant information only.
- There is focus on prevention.
- Focus on what you can do as a parent to help your child
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Child Abuse
1) What Is Child Abuse?
2) Childcare Abuse
3) Smacking
4) Female Genital Mutilation
5) Child abandonment
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Safeguarding With Regards To Sexual Based Issues
1) Porn
2) Sexting
3) Teenage Pregnancy
4) Underage Sex
5) Sexual Diseases
6) Revenge Porn
7) Upskirting
8) Stalking
9) Female Genital Mutilation
10) Forced Marriage
11) Child Sexual Exploitation
12) Child Sexual Grooming
13) Child Prostitution
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Identity, Gender Identity, And Puberty
1) Child Identity
2) Gender Identity
3) Puberty
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Academic Safeguarding
1) Academic & Exam Stress
2) Leaving School & Future Plans
3) School Exclusions
4) School Transition
5) Pastoral Care & Child Protection Policy
6) Health & Safety In Schools.
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Smoking, Drinking, Drugs, And Gambling
1) Smoking
2) Drinking
3) Drugs
4) Gambling
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Crime
1) Knife Crime
2) Firearm & Gun Crime
3) Child Criminal Exploitation & Gangs
4) Child Trafficking
5) Child Sexual Exploitation
6) Child Sexual Grooming
7) Child Prostitution
8) Child Slavery
9) Money Mules
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Internet & Social Media
1) Online Stalking & Bullying
2) Online Child Abuse & Grooming
3) Online Pornography
4) The Dark Web
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Safeguarding Of Teenagers
1) Date Rape & Sexual Assault
2) Abusive Partners & Relationships
3) Spiking Drinks, Injecting A Drug & Giving Drugs
4) Legal Permissions Given To A Child According To Age
5) Child Radicalisation
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Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia, Child Obesity, And Body Image
1) Anorexia
2) Bulimia
3) Child Obesity
4) Body Image
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Safeguarding For A Child In Need
1) Child Protection Conference, Child Protection Plan & A Child In Need Plan
2) Advocating For A Looked After Child (This Also Applies To A Child In Need).
3) Education For Children With Special Educational Needs & Disabilities.
4) Education For Children With Medical Needs
5) Doing Something About Discrimination and Inadequate Care For Special Educational Needs, Disabled And Medically Ill Children
Safeguarding For Looked After Children
1) Providing Education For Looked After Children
2) Child Arrangements For Looked After Children
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Arresting A Child, Stop & Search, ASBO and Complaining About The Police
1) Arresting A child
2) Stop & Search
3) ASBO
4) Complaining About The Police