Local Toolkits
Through the DFE funding of the "Harm outside the Home Project" Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire, have produced a toolkit to Protect adolescents from Harm outside the Home. This toolkit promotes the importance of children being in education when there are exploitation risks.
A Trauma Informed Toolkit to support education professionals to recognise the signs and behavioural symptoms associated with childhood trauma and adverse childhood experiences. These toolkits are fully available to schools via this site and may be used for the benefit of your educational establishment.
NEW- Leicestershire's Child Exploitation Screening Tool (MS Word, 135 Kb)This is Leicestershire's new Child Exploitation Screening Tool- it is one tool for Child Criminal Exploitation and Child Sexual Exploitation. It asks for more narrative in order to ensure that we are getting factual information in order to help us make a more evidenced grading decisions.
Harm Outside the Home - Toolkit
Harm Outside the Home Toolkit (PDF, 14 Mb)
Harm Outside The Home 7-minute briefing
This 7-minute briefing includes questions designed to support practitioners to maximise the opportunity to encourage a young person to disclose serious violence.
These questions are especially useful where the consultation or discussion is time limited.
This could include practitioners working in Unscheduled Health Care settings, Emergency Departments and Primary Care and also 'corridor conversations' in schools and colleges.
HARM OUTSIDE THE HOME 7MB (PDF, 225 Kb)
Protecting Adolescents - Toolkit for Schools
Protecting Adolescents Schools Toolkit (PDF, 1.5 Mb)
Understanding Behaviour in Schools Toolkit
The Understanding Behaviour in Schools Toolkit is a free East Midlands Education Support Service resource.
Anti-Racist Audit Tool for Schools
Leicestershire's Anti-Racist Audit Tool was developed and piloted with primary schools during 2021-2022 to support schools in improving their anti-racist practice. Schools found the audit tool helpful to identify areas of good practice along with areas for development and discussion.
National Toolkits
Expect Respect Healthy Relationships Toolkit (Women's Aid)
Expect Respect is a prevention toolkit that will help lead sessions around healthy relationships for children and young people aged 4-18.
Home Office Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit
This toolkit has been developed to support frontline practitioners to safeguard children and young people under the age of 18 from sexual and criminal exploitation. This includes social workers, police officers, housing officers, education staff, healthcare staff, charity staff, and others.
Contextual Safeguarding Network Harmful Sexual Behaviours Self-Assessment Toolkit
This self-assessment toolkit, put together by the Contextual Safeguarding Network, aims to support schools to address Harmful Sexual Behaviours.
Contextual Safeguarding Network Youth Violence Toolkit
This toolkit, put together by the Contextual Safeguarding Network, helps schools and community organisations to respond to youth violence. It aims to help schools to assess safety in their setting and provides resources supporting the implementation of contextual interventions within community settings and schools.
