Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership: threshold document, procedures and reporting a concern

Where to find it

Procedures, the threshold document, training and learning reviews: https://bristolsafeguarding.org/
Report a concern about a child in Bristol, City of: https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/social-care-and-health/children-and-families/concerns-about-a-child/report-your-concerns-about-a-child-as-a-member-of-the-public

If a child is in immediate danger, call 999. Staff in a school tell the designated safeguarding lead first. Links checked 27 September 2026.

What a designated safeguarding lead should hold from it

Its published safeguarding arrangements and current priorities.
Its threshold document, sometimes called the continuum of need, which sets out when a concern should be referred to children's social care.
The route to early help.
The procedure for allegations against staff.
Its latest local learning reviews.

Check each when the child protection policy is reviewed, and name the partnership in the policy.

The areas it covers

Bristol, City of

Across Bristol, City of, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, child sexual exploitation, gangs, going missing, trafficking, sexual abuse by another child and physical abuse by another child in a higher share of assessments than across England.

174 open schools, each with a page on the safeguarding context around it.

Schools and figures for Bristol, City of

Questions about Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership

Which areas does Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership cover?

Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership covers Bristol, City of, with 174 open schools.

Where is the Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership threshold document?

The partnership publishes its procedures and its threshold document, sometimes called the continuum of need, which sets out when a concern should be referred to children's social care, on its website, https://bristolsafeguarding.org/. Check there for the current version.

What should a designated safeguarding lead hold from Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership?

Its published arrangements and current priorities, its threshold document, the route to early help, the procedure for allegations against staff, and its latest learning reviews, each checked when the child protection policy is reviewed.

Is this Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership's own website?

No. This page is published by Safeguarding Context, which is independent of the partnership, to help schools find their local arrangements. The partnership's own website is the current source for its procedures and contacts.

Partnership and council links from the Safeguarding Context list of local arrangements, checked every week. Children's services figures from the Department for Education and the Welsh Government, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.