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Useful Safeguarding Resources For Parents

As parents, you want to make sure that your children develop healthily and thrive. We’re here to help you with advice on how you can build strong relationships with your children and keep them safe.

This is a collection of resources offering useful safeguarding guidance and information.

Guidance on Stranger Danger

Whilst the risk posed by strangers is rare, it’s really important to make children aware of simple tips they can follow to keep themselves a little safer. This video on Stranger Danger is designed to highlight a few key points, which could be used to help an important conversation with your child. It is aimed at children aged 4 – 11 years.

We would advise you to talk about who your safe adults are and where there are safe places near you if help is needed. It’s also important to think about safety on the internet and use of mobile phone apps and games that have a ‘chat’ function as this can be just as dangerous as a stranger in the street.

Further information and support is available from:

For advice about keeping children safe online, or if you want to report someone who is behaving suspiciously towards a child online, contact the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre at www.ceop.gov.uk or phone 0870 000 3344.

Years 5 and 6 ChildLine Assembly and Workshop

The ChildLine Schools Service has recently visited children in Years 5 and 6 to provide them with key messages about keeping safe. It can be beneficial for these messages to be reinforced at home. The NSPCC has developed some guides for all parents of primary school aged children to speak to your child about keeping safe – called the Underwear rule.

You can find guides to the Underwear Rule to help you have simple conversations about keeping safe from abuse at www.nspcc.org.uk/underwear.

You can speak to an advisor for further advice or request a hard copy guide for parents and carers by phoning the NSPCC Helpline on 0800 800 5000. You can also visit www.nspcc.org.uk/parents for other advice on keeping your child safe.