Welcome to the Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership website.

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

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.

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

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

The 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Information covers Achieving Best Evidence and Inherent Jurisdiction

Resources for Education professionals, including online safety and transfer of CP files.

Online Safety resources

Includes guidance on Referral Pathways to SARC and Harmful Sexual Behaviour

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

Information about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Bristol is an ACE aware city.

Neglect Strategy and supporting information

Information about Domestic Abuse and MARAC

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

Guidance around the PREVENT agenda and radicalisation, and information for safeguarding children who have returned from Syria

Information on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Forced Marriage

Information about Death in Childhood and CDOP annual reports

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

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

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

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

Information about the Mental Capacity Act and supporting Best Interests

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

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.

Information and resources on Mate Crime

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Policies and Guidance

Information for professionals