Procedures
London Child Protection Procedures
The third edition of the London Child Protection Procedures is now available to download from this website. If you would like a hard copy, please contact your Local Safeguarding Children Board. If your Local Safeguarding Children Board is unable to provide you with a copy, the London Board do have a small number available for individual orders - please note, however, that these include a substantial postage cost. If you would like to order through the London Board, please complete the order form and return to garry.owens@londoncouncils.gov.uk.
Click below to download the 3rd edition of the London Child Protection Procedures.
Full London Child Protection Procedures - 7.7mb
If you are planning to print these procedures, we would recommend using the smaller (in terms of file size), black and white version below:
Full London Child Protection Procedures for print - 1.5mb
Updating the procedures
Please note that the Editorial Board which finalised this third edition of the London Child Protection Procedures will continue to meet in 2008/9 to ensure that the document remains up to date and accurately reflects safeguarding practice in London. For more information on how this process will work, please download the letter below:
Process for updating the London Child Protection Procedures
Downloading individual chapters
The individual chapters of the procedures are also available to download separately, via the link below:
Related resources
The London Board have produced a number of resources to assist Local Safeguarding Children Boards in rolling out the procedures - these can be downloaded from the links below. Please note that some of these documents originally contained a small numbering error, and have since been amended (as indicated below).
Procedures presentation (amended 22/10/07)
Quick guide to using the procedures
Quick referral flowchart (amended 22/10/07)
Good practice checklist (amended 22/10/07)
Procedures contents pages (amended 22/10/07)
Supplementary procedures
The London Child Protection Procedures are supported by a number of supplementary procedures, all of which are summarised in the main document. These supplementaries can be downloaded from the links below:
