Welcome to the Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership website.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are highly stressful experiences that occur in early life that can have an impact of physical and mental health throughout life.

Information about Death in Childhood and CDOP annual reports

Includes guidance around Criminal Exploitation (CCE); Trafficking; and County Lines

Information covers Achieving Best Evidence and Inherent Jurisdiction

CSPRs are learning reviews conducted in cases where abuse or neglect of a child is known or suspected and the child has died or been seriously harmed.

Includes guidance on Referral Pathways to SARC and Harmful Sexual Behaviour

The following guidance outlines the principles which underpin best practice interventions to safeguard children and young people from sexual exploitation

Multi Agency Protocol for Children who present to the Children Emergency Department (CED) at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC) who are medically fit but there is an unclear pathway for safe discharge

Guidance appropriate for professionals working with Adults and Children; Children and young adults with disabilities.

Information about Domestic Abuse and MARAC

The Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership carries out DHRs when someone aged 16 or over dies as a result of violence, abuse or neglect by a relative, household member or someone they’ve been in an intimate relationship with.

National and local guidance to assist professionals working in the education sector to safeguard learners.

Information on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Forced Marriage

Information and resources on Mate Crime

Information about the Mental Capacity Act and supporting Best Interests

These documents were developed to provide a clear outline of the multi-agency responsibilities and response to meeting the needs of children who go missing from home and care

Guidance around multi-agency professionals meetings, MAPPA, strategies, and Child Protection conferences.

National guidance for safeguarding adults, with reference to The Care Act, The Mental Capacity Act, Deprovation of Liberty Safeguards / Liberty Protection Safeguards, Out of Area Safeguarding Adults Guidance, and Office of Public Guardian.

All professionals should be working in line with national policy around safeguarding children.

Neglect Strategy and supporting information

Online Safety resources

Information and guidance on Organisational and Institutional abuse in adult care settings

Guidance for organisations or individuals who provide community activities including faith based establishments. On this page you will find national guidance from the Department of Education for those providing tuition or after-school clubs for children, also known as out of school settings (OOSS) providers. You will also find a multi-faith guide to child protection and adult safeguarding adopted from Faith Associates, Birmingham City Council for use in Bristol.

Protocol for those working with Adults and Children to support Perinatal Mental Health (PMH)

Policies and Guidance relevant to pregnancy and infants, including; Perinatal Mental Health; Expected Baby; Injuries in non-mobile babies

The KBSP Prevention and Early Intervention Strategy aims to raise awareness and to promote an outcomes approach in safeguarding adults that results in the best experience possible.

Guidance around the Prevent agenda, violent extremism and radicalisation, and information for safeguarding children who have returned from Syria after exposure to radicalisation.

Guidance to support professionals who work with adults at risk in their practice. Includes Escalation of professional disagreements, Information Sharing, Supervision and Good Practice Guide.

Policies and guidance around professional working standards for those working with children, including Supervision; Escalation; Allegations against professionals (LADO).

Following learning from a Serious Case Review 'Child H' completed by KBSP in 2019, the partnership produced a briefing note to support professionals making risk assessments around dogs and other pets.

Guidance for professionals working with Adults, Children and Communities to support a 'Think Family' Approach.

Bristol's KBSP Threshold Guidance 2018 has been designed to help practitioners working with children and young people identify when additional support will help children achieve their potential, and keep them safe from harm. The 2018 refreshed document includes matrices to assist practitioners in their decision making. This page also contains the Bristol Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Process.

This document provides a good practice guideline for agencies involved in transitions of children to adult services

Includes KBSP guidance on Working with Adults at Risk, Regional Safeguarding Adults Policy, Safeguarding Pathways, and OOA Safeguarding Guide

A Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) is a multi-agency review conducted by the KBSP to learn lessons from serious cases.

Information about extrafamilial harm and Bristol's response to it, including the contextual safeguarding approach and 'Safer Options', the coordinated whole system response to prevent serious violence and exploitation in Bristol. On this page, find out more about the types of extrafamilial harm including; child sexual exploitation (CSE), child criminal exploitation (CCE), county lines drug dealing, modern slavery including trafficking, peer-on-peer abuse and serious youth violence.

Self neglect is a complex issue for safeguarding. The KBSP has developed Multi Agency Guidance for dealing with adults with care and support needs where there are concerns of Self Neglect.

Sexual violence support and resources, including a resource from SARSAS for working with older women who have experienced sexual harm.

Joint Child, Adults and Communities guidance for working with parents and families who misuse substances

Our strategy on how to prevent young people in Bristol from getting involved with gang activity and violence.

Policies and Guidance

Information for professionals