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Operation Encompass - Early Years Rollout in Norfolk
Operation Encompass is being extended to Early Years settings across Norfolk. This term's pilot will focus on settings located in Norwich and Great Yarmouth.
Revised Children Missing Education Guidance September 2025
Information regarding revised statutory guidance for Children Missing Education (CME) published by the Department for Education.
Safeguarding Self Evaluations - update and initial feedback
Last academic year, Children's Services undertook the whole system audit of school and college safeguarding practices in line with statutory guidance. Thank you to all of the schools and colleges who completed their submission; we have identified broad areas of strength and development ahead of the full report.
City of Sanctuary UK Guidance to Help Schools Navigate Conflict and Misinformation
In response to widespread misrepresentations of schools' activities, and of Schools of Sanctuary as a whole, the City of Sanctuary UK team have issued some guidance to schools engaged in sanctuary work.
REMINDER: Have you completed your prejudice-based incident reporting for 2024-2025?
Norfolk County Council requests that all schools and educational settings submit a prejudice-based incident report for the academic year 2024-25, including nil returns (we need all settings to complete a report even if they have not recorded any incidents).
Update on CADS Team Structure and Call Routing Guidance
Recent changes within the CADS (Children's Advice and Duty Service) teams, which have been designed to enhance our focus and effectiveness across key areas of safeguarding.
Updates to the Safeguarding Policy and training package
Further to the news item published on 8 July 2025 regarding the updated 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' statutory guidance, the Education Safeguarding Team have updated the Norfolk model safeguarding policy and the whole school training package.
Prejudice-based incident reporting for 2024-2025?
Norfolk County Council requests that all schools and educational settings submit a prejudice-based incident report for the academic year 2024-25, including any nil returns.
Reminder about Audit of School Safeguarding Practices 2024-2025
A reminder that Children's Services is undertaking a whole system audit of school and college safeguarding practices, in line with statutory guidance, with a school submission deadline of 11 July 2025.
Invitation to the Fire Safety in Schools webinar
Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service is pleased to invite all schools to their Fire Safety in Schools webinar on 10 July.
Know The Signs: Resources tackling child exploitation
The Office for Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk have released new tackling child exploitation resources.
Pol-Ed - programme registration reminder and upcoming webinar
A reminder to register for Pol-Ed, which is free for all Norfolk education settings. It has been written by PSHE specialist teachers to be delivered by teachers and is quality assured by West Yorkshire Police for legal accuracy.
