Safeguarding Children

The Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Procedures are in force since Monday 12 March 2007.

All staff and volunteers, who work with children, should now be aware of the new procedures, which are available on:

The website has a registration facility which will be used for informing practitioners of any updates. If you intend to download the document for use in your own organisation, please ensure that you register and are then able to pass the updated information on to other users of your site.

The procedures is a PDF file (about 5MB) and is not suitable for downloading on a dial-up connection. The procedures are fully interactive with both internal and external links.

Hard copies of the procedures are available for back up and for work sites that do not have internet access. However the hard copies do not contain the additional information that is available in the electronic version.

Please ensure that all copies of the Derbyshire ACPC Child Protection Procedures are now withdrawn and should be destroyed.

Any requests for further information, enquiries etc should be made to:

Dona Womack
Strategy Officer
Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board
St Helena Centre
Sheffield Road
Chesterfield
S41 7LU

Telephone: 01246 347964

email: dona.womack@derbyhsire.gov.uk

**Please note: High Peak Borough Council is not responsible for the content of any external websites.