Abbreviation | Explanation |
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ABE | Achieving Best Evidence. Guidance for Police Officers and Social Workers in conducting interviews with children where allegation of abuse are being investigated. |
ASC | Adult Social Care |
CAIU | Child Abuse Investigation Unit (Police) |
CAMAT | Child Abuse Multi-Agency Training. |
CAMHS | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services |
CAFCASS | Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service |
CEOP | Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (tackling child sex abuse and providing advice) |
CSE | Child Sexual Exploitation |
CSPR | Child Safeguarding Practice Review |
CPP | Child Protection Plan. A plan created following a child protection conference that sets out how the child can be kept safe. |
CPOMS | Child Protection Online Management System. The market leading software solution for monitoring Safeguarding, wellbeing and all pastoral issues. |
CO | Care Order. Places a child under the care of the Local Authority. This is otherwise known as a child “being in care”. |
CSA | Child Sexual Abuse |
CSC | Children’s Social Care |
CCE | Child Criminal Exploitation |
CSE | Child Sexual Exploitation (one aspect of CSA) |
DASH | Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour-Based Violence (HBV). |
DV / DA | Domestic Violence or Domestic abuse |
DBS | Disclosure and Barring Service. formerly known as the CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) |
DSL | Designated Safeguarding Lead (England) |
DSP | Designated Senior Person (Wales) |
DVPN | Domestic Violence Protection Notice |
DVPO | Domestic Violence Protection Order. The next step up from a DVPN |
EH | Early Help – “providing support as soon as a problem emerges, at any point in a child’s life, from the foundation years through to the teenage years”. Also known as EHA. |
EHH | Early Help Hub |
EPO | Emergency Protection Order. Protects a child from ongoing or imminent risk of physical, mental or emotional harm where emergency action is needed for a maximum period of eight days. |
EWO | Education Welfare Officer |
FIS | Family Information Service. provides information on childcare, activities and services for children and young people and family support in a local area |
FGM | Female Genital Mutilation |
HBV | Honour-Based Violence |
HV | This could mean ‘home visit’ or Health Visitor |
HSB | Harmful Sexualised Behaviour. is developmentally inappropriate sexual behaviour which is displayed by children and young people. |
IRO | Independent Reviewing Officers. |
IRO’s | Chair reviews for children living in children’s homes or foster care. |
ICPC | Initial Child Protection Conference. brings together all the people involved with a child who is not already subject to a child protection plan. |
ICO | Interim Care Order. An order that is applied for by the Local Authority to ask for the power to share Parental Responsibility with the parents of children they believe to be at risk. |
KCSiE | Keeping Children Safe in Education (Education Guidance, England) |
KLS | Keeping Learners Safe (Education Guidance, Wales) |
LAC | Looked After Child, formerly children in care. |
LADO | Local Authority Designated Officer. works within Children’s Services and gives advice and guidance to employers, organisations who have concerns about the behaviour of an adult who works with children and young people. |
LSCB | Local Safeguarding Children Board. Set up in each local authority and co-ordinates what is done to safeguard children in the area. |
MASH | Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub |
MARAC | Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference |
MARF | Multi Agency Referral Form |
NFA | No further action |
OFSTED | Office for Standards in Education. (lead inspection agency for Children’s Services in England) |
PoCA | Protection of Children Act |
PRU | Pupil Referral Unit |
PR | Parental Responsibility |
PPO | Police Protection Order. In an emergency situation, children can be placed under police protection for up to 72 hours |
SRO | Sexual Risk Order. is a civil order which can be sought by the police against an individual who has not been convicted or cautioned for a sexual offence but who is nevertheless thought by the police to pose a risk of harm. |
S47 or Section 47 | Investigation of a child at risk of significant harm |
SERAF | Sexual Exploitation Risk Assessment Form. This aims to identify the factors that may render children and young people vulnerable to being targeted for CSE (child sexual exploitation). |
SEND | Special Education Needs and Disability |
SGO | Special Guardianship Order. |
TAC | Team Around a Child (part of Early Help) |
TAF | Team around the Family. provides a service to families who are likely to need help from two or more agencies (e.g. schools, health services, housing). |
UKCCIS | UK Council for Child Internet Safety |
UNCRC | United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. An international convention signed by Britain on which we have based much of our current child safeguarding legislation |
UASC | Un-accompanied Asylum Seeking Child |
YOT | Youth Offending Team. is a multi-agency team that work with young people that get into trouble with the law. |
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