Guidance

Developing local substance misuse safeguarding protocols

Information on developing local joint protocols between drug and alcohol services, and children and family services.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 1 December 2013
• Last updated: 19 December 2017 — See all updates

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Developing local substance misuse safeguarding protocols

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Safeguarding: local practice examples

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This document gives guidance to local authorities on developing local protocols between alcohol and drug services, and children and family services. It provides recommendations and sets out good working practice.

Local authorities can use this guidance to better support troubled families, and children and young people affected by substance misusing parents or carers.

The guidance was updated in 2013 to include recommendations from 3 documents including:

• Munro review of child protection: a child-centred system (Department for Education)
• Working together to safeguard children (Department for Education)
• Joint working between adult and children’s services: what about the children? (Ofsted)

This local practice examples document provides case studies from different local substance misuse commissioners and providers on how they are tackling child safeguarding issues related to substance misuse. It demonstrates how they are putting the drug strategy outcomes into practice. Drug and alcohol misuse commissioners can use these examples to help them develop their own local protocols.

Published 1 December 2013
Last updated 19 December 2017 + show all updates

1. 19 December 2017

   Added local practice examples

2. 1 December 2013

   First published.