Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership

Inspections & research

Inspections:

The current Ofsted inspection framework began in September 2019. Here is a link to the Ofsted page with more information: Ofsted Inspection Guidance from September 2019

The guidance from Ofsted is listed here with links:

• School inspection handbook (EIF)

• Section 8 school inspection handbook (EIF)

• Education inspection framework (EIF)

Key national safeguarding children documents that Ofsted inspections work to:

• Working Together to Keep Children Safe, DfE 2018

• Keeping Children Safe in Education, DfE, Sept 22

If you think you may be due an inspection please contact your Safeguarding Children Advisor, Education to discuss the safeguarding element of the inspection and any specific issues.

Research: 

• Developing and implementing a low-level concerns policy: A guide for organisations which work with children (Farrer and Co), June 22 (this guidance is useful for writing a low level concerns policy about adults in education settings)

• Home alone: is my child ready to be left alone? NSPCC

• State of the nation 2019: children and young people’s wellbeing research report, DfE Oct 19

• Parental engagement on relationships education (primary), DfE Oct 19

• Reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention, DfE June 19

• Parents’ and carers’ views on how we can work together to prevent the sexual abuse of disabled children, NSPCC

• Short descriptions of interventions identified from the synthesis of systematic reviews, (children's mental health) PHE

• Childline annual review 2018/19, NSPCC

• Technology use and the mental health of children and young people, RCP Jan 20

• Health behaviour in school-aged children: findings from the 2018 HBSC study for England, WHO 2020

• Child sexual abuse: learning from case reviews, NSPCC

• Our generation’s epidemic: knife crime, British Youth Council