Protecting children is your responsibility too...
The safety and welfare of children - or child protection - is everyone's business. You could be a neighbour, friend, relative, childminder, teacher or doctor - or working for any organisation which has contact with children and young people.
Child protection means protecting children from physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect. It also means helping children to grow up into confident, healthy and happy adults.
Most children enjoy generally happy childhood experiences within their own family. Unfortunatley for some, this is not the case. During difficult family times, everyone who knows the child must do the best they can to protect them from future harm.
We will be adding to this section soon, so please visit regularly for the latest information. The useful links section of this site provides further information, as does the Safe Parenting Handbook.
Your thoughts and opinions are important to us. If you feel that we can improve this website or if you have information that may benefit other parents/carers, please contact us.
Use of images
Taking pictures and videos of children and young people's achievements and activities is a wonderful way of capturing a memory and promoting successes but consideration needs to be given to who might have access to those images.
Please see related documents below for a fact sheet for parents and carers.
This guidance has been produced by Dudley Safeguarding Children Board and is endorsed by the Vulnerable Adult Safeguarding Board, and Dudley Children's Trust.
