Research and Tools
The OSCB is keen to provide professional with research as well as government guidance, which can be found to the left of this page under the professionals menu. Research undertaken regarding child protection issues will be added regularly.
Deliberate self harm
- Working with young people who self harm: guidance for staff in emergency services (.pdf format, 222Kb)
- About self harm: a guide for young people (.pdf format, 310Kb)
- Self-harm: the short-term management and secondary prevention of self-harm in primary and secondary care (.pdf format, 119Kb)
- Research briefing on self harm - National Social Worker Centre for Excellence (.pdf format, 235Kb)
Domestic abuse
- Children and families experiencing domestic violence: police and children’s social services’ responses (.pdf format, 604Kb)
- Safety planning for children worksheet (.pdf format, 419Kb)
The aim of this workbook is to promote wider discussion of children’s feelings about the situation they are living in. It is to be used as an aid for Professionals when assessing a child’s needs, feelings and wishes. - Improving safety, reducing harm: children, young people and domestic violence
A practical toolkit for front-line practitioners.
Guidance
Infants suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm: A prospective longitudinal study (.pdf format, 76.5Kb) Building a safe, confident future (.pdf format, 696Kb) - The Children’s Plan two years on: a progress report (.pdf format, 2.6Mb)
- Disabled children’s access to childcare (DCATCH) pilot activity (.pdf format, 491Kb)
- 'Drawing the Line’ - a report on the Government’s Vetting and Barring Scheme (.pdf format, 1.4Mb)
- Guidance on looked after children with special educational needs placed out-of-authority (.pdf format, 218Kb)
- NSDU interim progress report and work programme 2009-2010 (.pdf format, 295Kb)
- Organisation, outcomes and costs of interagency training (.pdf format, 304Kb)
- Responding to Lord Laming’s recommendation for further guidance on effective practice for Local Safeguarding Children Boards (.pdf format, 535Kb)
- The role and responsibilities of the designated teacher for looked after children (.pdf format, 1.2Mb)
- Statutory guidance on promoting the health and well-being of looked after children (.pdf format, 874Kb)
- Working together to safeguard children consultation document (.pdf format, 1.8Kb)
