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Every child matters: education, training, employment
www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/ete/
Explains how the Every Child Matters agenda affects those working in schools and education.
Teachernet: child protection
www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/familyandcommunity/childprotection/
Information, guidance and resources on child protection for schools and local education authorities from the Department for Education and Skills.
Worried? Need to talk?: teachers' site
www.worriedneed2talk.org.uk/teachers/
Site for teachers to accompany our Worried? Need to talk? booklet for 11-17 year-olds.
Safeguarding children and safer recruitment in education (PDF)
Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
London: Department for Education and Skills (DfES), 2006
ISBN: 9781844788545
DfES guidance document effective from 1st January 2007 which outlines the responsibilities of all local authorities, schools and Further Education (FE) colleges in England to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. It looks at the recruitment and selection process, including recruitment best practice, recruitment and vetting checks, and duties for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in education. It also looks at dealing with allegations of abuse against teachers and other staff. Includes 14 appendices to support this guidance, including flowcharts to assist schools and FE colleges with the recruitment and checking process.
Every child matters: change for children in schools (PDF)
Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
London: Department for Education and Skills (DfES), 2004
ISBN: 1844783561
Sets out the Government's strategy for integrating services to children, including education.
Education Act 2002: chapter 32
London: The Stationery Office (TSO), 2002
ISBN: 0105432024
An Act to make provision about education, training and childcare. Includes a provision requiring school governing bodies, local education authorities and further education institutions to make arrangements to safeguard and promote to welfare of children (section 175).
Problems at home, problems at school: the effects of maltreatment in the home on children's functioning at school: an overview of recent research
Mills, Chris
London: NSPCC, 2004
Reviews the research that examines the relationship between how children are treated at home and how they fare at school in terms of academic performance, special educational needs, behaviour problems, bullying, absence and exclusion.
Responsibility without power?: local education authorities and child protection
Baginsky, Mary
London: NSPCC, 2003
ISBN: 1842280333
Presents findings of a survey of all designated officers with responsibility for child protection in English local education authorities (LEAs), asking about their child protection procedures. Also includes findings of a study of Ofsted reports, establishing how they met their responsibilities in inspecting for child protection provision.
Learning to protect: a child protection resource pack for teacher training
NSPCC
Leicester: NSPCC, 2003
ISBN: 1842280392
Designed for tutors of primary and secondary initial teacher training courses who have responsibility for providing basic child protection awareness training for student teachers.
Child protection awareness in education (NSPCC EduCare child protection awareness programme)
NSPCC; EduCare
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: NSPCC, [2002]
Four module child protection awareness programme aimed at teachers, school governors and anyone involved in education.
Child protection and education (NSPCC Research briefing)
Baginsky, Mary
London : NSPCC, 2002
Examines how schools and Local Education Authorities approach the area of child protection.
Report on the effectiveness of school-based child abuse prevention programmes.
Kaplan, Ian
London : NSPCC, 2001
ISBN: 1842280090
Concludes that the effectiveness of school-based child abuse prevention programmes has not been proven and that further research is needed in this area.
Child protection and education
Baginsky, Mary
London : NSPCC, 2000
ISBN: 1842280082
Results of a survey aiming to identify how schools and local education authorities approach the area of child protection, and the evolving role of education in relation to child protection.
Protecting children: a handbook for teachers and school managers. 2nd ed.
Whitney, Ben
London : Routledge Falmer, 2004
ISBN: 0415344646
Brings together legislation, guidance and standards relating to the legal obligations of educational establishments in respect to child protection.
The seduction of children: empowering parents and teachers to protect children from child sexual abuse.
Sanderson, Christiane
London : Jessica Kingsley, 2004
ISBN: 184310248X
Offers practical strategies for the protection of children from sexually abusive people. Offers guidance on discussing, with children, appropriate and inappropriate touching/behaviour and the dangers of sexual abuse.
Promoting personal safety in PSHE
Jane Harries
London: Paul Chapman, 2006.
ISBN: 1412918235
Based on work done in secondary schools by the NSPCC, this PSHE curriculum resource gives young people the information and skills necessary to keep themselves safe in their personal relationships, and to develop positive emotional health and wellbeing.
Take care!: self-awareness and personal safety issues in the primary curriculum
Schonveld, A. and Myko, V.
London: NSPCC, 2000
A valuable resource pack, designed for primary schools, offering information on self-awareness and personal safety. Available from NSPCC Publications
Worried? Need to talk?
NSPCC
London: NSPCC, 2002
Life can be hard and we all need help from time to time. Young people often don't know who they can turn to when they are worried and face a problem. The NSPCC provides someone to turn to for every child. Worried? Need to talk? is an illustrated pocket guide for young people aged 11 to 17, that provides information about services that are there to help.
Teachernet: PSHE
www.teachernet.gov.uk/pshe/
Information, resources and support for staff teaching PSHE to Key Stages 1-4 from the Department for Education and Skills.
BBC: Schools - teachers homepage
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/
Lesson plans, worksheets and other resources for Curriculum subjects from the BBC.
Channel 4: Learning - PSHE
web.channel4.com/learning/teachers/websites/pshe.html
Interactive games and activities for students from Key Stages 1-4.
Channel 4: Schools brochures
www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/W/whatsnew/index.jsp
Brochures with more information about Channel 4 DVDs, videos, books, CD-ROMs and websites for primary and secondary education.
Curriculum online
www.curriculumonline.gov.uk
Multimedia resources to support teaching and learning in schools to support the curriculum taught in schools in England from Foundation to Key Stage 4.
This reading list was prepared by the NSPCC Library (March 2007). These items do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSPCC. Anyone wishing to obtain any of the items on the list should contact their own public or academic library or bookshop. For information about publications produced by the NSPCC, please contact NSPCC Publications.
Although the sites listed here are checked regularly, the constantly changing nature of the internet means that some sites may alter after we have viewed them. The NSPCC is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, the content of these external websites.
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