Safeguarding children partnership
Slough Safeguarding Partnership
Slough Safeguarding Partnership is the local safeguarding children partnership for Slough, covering 60 open schools. This page gathers where it publishes its procedures, how to report a concern about a child in each area, and what children's services record there. It is not the partnership's own site.
Where to find it
- Procedures, the threshold document, training and learning reviews: https://www.sloughsafeguardingpartnership.org.uk
- Report a concern about a child in Slough: https://www.sloughchildrenfirst.co.uk/first-contact/
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
Slough
Across Slough, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, child sexual exploitation, gangs, going missing and trafficking in a higher share of assessments than across England.
60 open schools, each with a page on the safeguarding context around it.
Schools and figures for SloughQuestions about Slough Safeguarding Partnership
Which areas does Slough Safeguarding Partnership cover?
Slough Safeguarding Partnership covers Slough, with 60 open schools.
Where is the Slough Safeguarding 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://www.sloughsafeguardingpartnership.org.uk. Check there for the current version.
What should a designated safeguarding lead hold from Slough Safeguarding 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 Slough Safeguarding 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.
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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.