Kent and Medway safeguarding children procedures and strategies

All our procedures and strategies have been developed to support and help partner agencies in their safeguarding work.

View Kent and Medway Safeguarding Children Procedures

Recently published procedures

These procedures have recently been signed-off by the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Children Partnerships and will be transferred to the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Procedures website during the next update. The next update will take place in May 2022.

View Kent Escalation and Professional Challenge Policy (DOCX, 85.0 KB)

View Kent and Medway pre-birth procedures (PDF, 242.3 KB)

View Kent and Medway actual or suspected bruising procedures (PDF, 238.2 KB)

View Kent and Medway actual or suspected bruising (information for parents/carers) leaflet (PDF, 1.4 MB)

Strategies

View Kent Neglect Strategy (PDF, 164.1 KB)

View Kent and Medway Gangs Strategy 2022-2024 (DOCX, 1.3 MB)

We welcome any feedback forwards our procedures and strategies, as this will help us to improve and develop. Feedback can be sent to catherine.hampson@kent.gov.uk