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Safe Communities Project

We all have a responsibility to protect children and young people

 

Safe communities toolkit

Do you work with children and young people? Our Toolkit is FREE to voluntary and independent community groups working with children.

 

The Safe Communities Project is a major three-year initiative by NSPCC Consultancy Services to ensure all children and young people in England and Wales can take part in organised activities safely.

This  £1 million project has been made possible by a grant from the Community Fund Strategic Grants Programme of the Big Lottery Fund.

The initiative aims to reach out to and build capacity in organisations working with some of the most disadvantaged and hard to reach groups of children and young people. It seeks to bring about far-reaching changes not only in practice, but also in policy.

Children and young peopleThe Safe Communities Project aims to:

  • enable local community organisations to put safeguards in place to prevent the abuse of children and young people

  • ensure that there is someone to turn to for children in every community-based organisation with the confidence, knowledge and skills to act on child safety and well-being

  • influence voluntary and community organisations  so that keeping children safe is integrated into local inter-agency safeguarding arrangements

  • influence safeguarding policy and practice nationally, so that it becomes the accepted norm that all organised community activities for children and young people have essential safeguards.

This will be achieved through:

  • working with community-based organisations who provide activities for children

  • working directly with local and national government, engaging Local Safeguarding Children Boards and funding bodies to achieve changes in policy

  • sharing our learning from the distribution of a new NSPCC resource: Safe communities: a toolkit to protect children and young people.

Our activities:

For further information about the Safe Communities Project please telephone 0116 234 7253 or email toolkit@nspcc.org.uk

www.nspcc.org.uk/safecommunities