Safeguarding and welfare requirements
Anyone who has concerns for the immediate safety of a child or young person must phone:
- The Cheshire East Consultation Service (ChECS) on 0300 123 5012
(Monday -Thursday 8.30 am - 5pm or Friday 8.30am - 4.30pm)
- Out of Hours Service (Emergency Duty Team) on 0300 123 5022
Do not hesitate. Seek support and advice immediately.
Ensure you keep these telephone numbers readily to hand by displaying copies of the staying safe poster (PDF, 201KB) provided by the Cheshire East Early Years and Childcare team
If you have children attending your setting who live outside of Cheshire East you must also keep contact details for the Local Authority in which they live. You should also make yourself aware of the LSCB procedures for those Local Authorities.
Please visit the Cheshire East Local Safeguarding Children's Partnership (CESCP) website for further information about keeping children safe in Cheshire East. The section headed ‘learning and improvement’ includes the CESCP Training Programme for practitioners.
Welfare and safeguarding requirements
All practitioners working with children and young people have a duty to ensure they are kept safe and that their needs are met appropriately.
All providers must adhere to the Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements in the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (effective 4 September 2023).
“Providers must take all necessary steps to keep children safe and well”. (Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage page 21).
Safeguarding policy framework for children in childcare settings and documentation
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- Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements Monitoring Tool (MS Word, 5MB)
- Spotlight on MARAC January 2018 (MS Word, 590KB)
- Chronology example for early years (PDF, 150KB)
- Chronology (MS Word, 46KB)
- Cover sheet for safeguarding file (MS Word, 49KB)
- Daily events log (MS Word, 43KB)
- Daily events log example (MS Word, 44KB)
- Checklist for a record of concern (MS Word, 17KB)
- Record of concern (MS Word, 88KB)
- Report for meeting (MS Word, 46KB)
- Safeguarding file reminder label (MS Word, 16KB)
- Safeguarding file (PDF, 253KB)
- Single central record 2023 (MS Excel, 18KB)
- Transfer of safeguarding records (MS Word, 126KB)
- Safeguarding lanyards / key ring (PDF, 282KB)
- CESCP neglect screening tool
- Spotlight on female genital mutilation (PDF, 605KB)
- Spotlight on honour based violence (PDF, 626KB)
- One Minute Guide to Keeping Children Safe in Education 2018 (PDF, 373KB)
- One Minute Guide to Disqualification by Association (PDF, 135KB)
- Private fostering (PDF, 364KB)
Posters
Scenarios
- Bulletin scenario November 2023 (PDF, 50KB)
- Bulletin scenario October 2023 (PDF, 100KB)
- Bulletin scenario September 2023 (PDF, 104KB)
- Bulletin scenario August 2023 (PDF, 72KB)
- Bulletin scenario July 2023 (PDF, 92KB)
- Bulletin scenario June 2023 (PDF, 92KB)
- Bulletin scenario May 2023 (PDF, 84KB)
- Bulletin scenario April 2023 (PDF, 99KB)
- Bulletin scenario March 2023 (PDF, 83KB)
- Bulletin scenario February 2023 (PDF, 95KB)
- Bulletin scenario January 2023 (PDF, 94KB)
- Bulletin scenario December 2022 (PDF, 85KB)
- Bulletin scenario November 2022 (PDF, 91KB)
- Bulletin scenario October 2022 (PDF, 86KB)
- Bulletin scenario September 2022 (PDF, 84KB)
- Bulletin scenario August 2022 (PDF, 42KB)
- Bulletin Scenario July 2022 (95KB)
- Bulletin scenario June 2022 (PDF, 84KB)
- Bulletin scenario May 2022 (PDF, 84KB)
- Bulletin scenario April 2022 (PDF, 94KB)
- Bulletin scenario March 2022 (PDF, 105KB)
- Bulletin scenario February 2022 (PDF, 76KB)
- Bulletin scenario January 2022 (PDF, 96KB)
- Bulletin scenario December 2021 (PDF, 88KB)
- Bulletin scenario November 2021 (PDF, 88KB)
- Bulletin scenario October 2021 (PDF, 82KB)
- Bulletin scenario September 2021 (PDF, 82KB)
- Bulletin scenario July 2021 (PDF, 88KB)
- Bulletin scenario June 2021 (PDF, 87KB)
National documentation
Page last reviewed: 08 December 2023