On this page, find useful information and links to support the health, safety and safeguarding at your setting.
Health and safety
- Information on Meningitis and improving protection against meningitis C
- Sepsis awareness
- Mental_health_and_behaviour_in_schools
- Latest guidance from Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust regarding anaphylaxis
- MindED - online advice and support you can trust
- Latest guidance from the Department of Health for use of adrenaline auto-injectors in schools.
- Health protection in schools and other childcare facilities - updated 27/03/19
- HSE 'Health and Safety Toolbox' - useful in supporting a small business in meeting all H&S requirements
- The Spotty Book
- Heatwave: how to cope in hot weather.
- Looking after children and those in early years settings during heatwaves: guidance for teachers and professionals
- Unintentional injuries: prevention in children under 5 years - Link to Public Health England publication
- Safer Food, Better Business - information from the Food Standards Agency
- Childminders - food safety - information from the Food Standards Agency
- Updated information on pre-school food portion sizes
- Allergen information - information from the Food Standards Agency
- Seat belt laws are changing - for information see GOV.UK website
- BHF National Centre: Physical Activity and Health. Physical activity guidelines.
- Safety alert regarding socket covers
- Dangers of Jelly Cubes and importance of risk assessment for activities involving food:
The Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework requires providers to ensure they take all reasonable steps to ensure staff and children in their care are not exposed to risks and must be able to demonstrate how they are managing risks.
Guidance about the importance of risk assessment for activities involving food – including raw jelly cubes which is a potential choking hazard can be found in A Manager’s Guide to Paediatric First Aid Training on the National Day Nurseries Association’s website.
Providers may wish to be aware that ‘NHS choices’ has now included warnings about raw jelly cubes on its pages for Baby and toddler safety and Foods to avoid giving your baby.
Safeguarding
- Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Safeguarding Children Board website
- Bitesize Guide to Local Safeguarding Children Board
- Safeguarding training
- Guidance on how to report a serious safeguarding incident
- Information Sharing: Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers.
- Guidance for safer working practice for those working with children and young people in education settings
- What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused: Advice for practitioners
- Keeping children safe in education: for schools and colleges
- Bruising and Injuries to Non-Mobile Children: Link to safeguarding procedures
- Working together to safeguard children. Statutory guidance on inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
- Safeguarding children and protecting professionals in early years settings: online safety considerations
- Social Media Guide for teachers and professionals
- Online reputation management for schools
- Statutory requirements for safeguarding
- Child sexual exploitation - Link to guidance
- Child sexual abuse prevention toolkit
- Cyberbullying: Understand, Prevent and Respond - Guidance for schools
- Female Genital Mutilation - updated information. The Home Office has made updates to its documents about female genital mutilation (FGM) – 1st December 2016. These include: the statement opposing FGM; the procedural information for mandatory reporting of female genital mutilation; the factsheet on FGM protection orders. You need to be aware of these documents because you might be asked about them during inspection.
- Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation
- Safeguarding deaf and disabled children : link to NSPCC information
- Signs of child abuse - link to NSPCC information
- Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills settings (updated 14/05/19)
- Commonly asked questions : link to inspection information
- The Prevent Duty. Departmental advice for schools and childcare providers.
Cornwall Council Officer - Steve Rowell - 01736 336587 - Steve.Rowell@cornwall.gov.uk - Preventing Violent Extremism Poster (PDF)
- How social media is used to encourage travel to Syria and Iraq (PDF)