20% of children aged 11 to 17 have tried vaping. Use this factsheet to make sure your staff are aware of this safeguarding issue, and what to do if they find a pupil vaping in your school.
Give your staff and parents/carers these factsheets to help them understand what sexting is, the risks of sexting, and how to respond to an incident.
Download and share our factsheets with parents/carers and school staff to make them aware of the rise of online misogyny and how it might be affecting children.
Make sure your staff are aware of domestic abuse as a safeguarding issue with our factsheet.
Share this factsheet with staff to help them understand the role of extremist symbols and memes in the online radicalisation of children. It includes common examples to be alert to and explains what staff should do if they see something concerning.
Do your staff know what apps and games are popular with children at the moment? Use this factsheet and activity to make sure they're up to speed.
Share this factsheet with your staff so they know what radicalisation and extremism are, who might be more at risk, what to look out for and what to do if they have concerns.
Use this factsheet to make staff aware of private fostering as a potential safeguarding issue, and what they must look out for.
Share this factsheet with your staff to help them understand why physical punishment is a safeguarding concern, the signs to look out for and what to do if they suspect a pupil is experiencing it at home.
Use this factsheet to make sure your staff understand who counts as being 'homeless' and the impact homelessness can have on children. Help staff know what to look out for, and what they can do to support families.
Use our factsheet to make sure your staff know what forced marriage is, what signs to look out for, and what to do if they have concerns.
Share our factsheets with parents/carers and with staff, so that they know the risks around sextortion, the signs to look out for and what to do if a pupil is a victim of sextortion.
All schools should have filtering and monitoring systems in place to safeguard pupils online. Use our factsheet to explain to staff what these systems are, how they work in your school, and what staff can do to protect pupils from harmful content online.
Share our factsheet with staff so they know what FGM is and what signs to look out for in a child that it may take place, or that it has taken place. Make sure they also understand their reporting duties and what they should do if they have concerns.
FII is a rare form of abuse involving a parent or carer inventing, exaggerating or deliberately causing symptoms of illness in a child. Make sure your staff understand what it is and are equipped to spot it.
Use this factsheet to help staff understand what eating disorders are, which pupils are most at risk of developing them, what to look out for, and what to do if they suspect a pupil has an eating disorder.
Substance misuse can be an indicator of abuse, or put children at greater risk of abuse. Make sure your staff know what to look out for and what to do.
Make sure your staff know what cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crime could involve, why it's a safeguarding issue, and what signs to look out for to suggest that a child may be at risk of being involved in cybercrime.
Make sure your staff know why this is a safeguarding issue, what they should look out for, and what they can do to support pupils.
Use our factsheet to make sure your staff are aware of the risk of children going missing, the warning signs to look out for and what action to take.
Understand the changes to Working Together to Safeguard Children that are most relevant to your school, and adapt our factsheet to help you communicate these to staff.
Children may be required to give evidence in criminal courts or be affected by a family court proceeding, which can be very stressful and impact their mental health. Use this factsheet to increase your staff's awareness and let them know what signs to look out for that could suggest that a child is being affected.
Make sure your staff know why it's important to act, and act early.
Use this factsheet to help staff understand what child sexual exploitation (CSE) is, the signs to look out for, and what they should do if they have concerns that a child is being exploited.