Safe communities: a toolkit to protect children and young people

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Safe communities: a toolkit to protect children and young people

Front cover of Safe communities: a toolkit to protect children and young people Do you work with children, young people and families?

The Safe Communities Toolkit is FREE to voluntary and independent community groups working with children.

Complete our Online application form

Safe communities: a toolkit to protect children and young people will help community organisations get the essentials in place to safeguard children they have contact with.

How can I get a copy?

The toolkit is FREE to community groups and local agencies. If you'd like to apply for a copy, please complete our Online application form. You can also:

Who will it help?

The Toolkit aims to help the whole community by making sure children and young people can take part in organised activities safely. The Toolkit will be used by community groups and clubs that work with children of all ages, and that provide activities such as arts, hobbies, religious teaching, and early years care. After-school clubs and youth clubs will also find it useful.

Pilot areas

Community groups and local agencies in the pilot areas can also take part in:

community conferences
training workshops
training the trainer programmes.

As the project is fully funded, community groups need only provide the staff or volunteers and time to take part.

What is in the Toolkit?

For staff:

a step-by-step guide - written advice about how to run a safe organisation
a DVD - to explain what we mean by abuse and how we can stop it
two NSPCC Educare programmes - courses to tell you more about safeguarding children.

For children and young people:

Kidscheck - a booklet for young people to use to check how safe their club or group is
Worried? Need to talk? - an illustrated pocket guide for young people aged 11 to 17 which provides information about the NSPCC and other services that are there to help.

For parents:

Have fun and be safe - a guide to help parents and carers choose children's activities in organisations that have safeguards in place.
Worried about a child? How you can protect children from abuse - this leaflet explains the steps that can be taken by someone who is worried about the safety of a child.

NSPCC Child Protection Helpline leaflets:

NSPCC Child Protection Helpline leaflet - a leaflet and poster about the NSPCC Child Protection Helpline - a free service for anyone worried about the safety of a child. Our Helpline is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, call 0808 800 5000 .
ChildLine poster - information about ChildLine our free helpline for children and young people in the UK, call 0800 1111 .

The Toolkit is available in English, and bilingually in Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali and Welsh.

For further information about the Safe Communities Project or our free Toolkit please telephone 0116 234 7253, email toolkit@nspcc.org.uk or complete our Online application form