May 2025
Welcome to your May DSL Planner Page!
This month our Planner focus is Missing Children.
Individuals are missing if their whereabouts cannot be established, the circumstances are out of character, or the context suggests the person may be subject to crime or at risk of harm to themselves or others.
Children and young people can go missing for several reasons. Those who are missing, or have run away from home, are more likely to be absent from education.
Some missing incidents may simply be a result of a child breaking a curfew to see friends but children who are reported missing are often vulnerable to risk or already experiencing harm. Risk of harm or further harm is increased while they are missing, especially if they go missing more than once.
The reasons children go missing are varied and complex. Efforts to prevent children from going missing must, therefore, be wide-ranging, with a clear focus on the voice of the child and the reasons for them going missing. A safe home environment is the biggest protective factor to stop a child going missing, but safeguarding is everyone’s business and requires a collective response.
How confident are you and your staff in identifying emerging concerns regarding Missing Children? How confidently does your setting respond to Missing incidents when they do occur?
Join Safeguarding Network and let us help you develop a structured and comprehensive approach that builds a strong and sustainable safeguarding culture.
Member benefits - DSL Training Materials covering Missing Children
Our membership includes a 2-year staff training curriculum covering every area in KCSiE with bitesize sessions designed to fit into your staff meetings every month, including the subject of missing children. DSL materials include:
- Handouts
- PowerPoint presentations with presenter notes.
- Quizzes
- Whole Setting Update and Presenter Notes - the General Safeguarding Update training to be delivered by the DSL.
- Scenarios - Safeguarding Scenarios with separate Scenario DSL notes to aid discussion and support sharing of best practice.
All DSL materials present the subject matter in a straight-forward and practical way, keeping the safeguarding of children at the heart of the topic.
SPECIAL OFFER - £20 Safeguarding Network membership discount (valid to 31 May 2025).
This month we are offering you a fabulous £20 membership discount. Standard Membership costs £109+VAT per term (with an annual subscription). All Essential members have access to the full 24 month Calendar of DSL Materials described above and;
- Regular bulletins
- Webinars on hot topics
- Early access to our Safeguarding Insights
- Heavily discounted online learning
- Training discounts
- Initial safeguarding advice
- KCSiE implementation tool
- KCSiE discounted staff knowledge checker
- Discounts on places at our annual safeguarding conference
- INSET training pack
Offer expires on 31st May 2025. Limited to one use per setting where the setting is not already a member of Safeguarding Network. Offer can be withdrawn at any time. If used more than once per setting or by member settings, the full membership price will be charged as appropriate. No alternatives (cash or otherwise) will be offered.
Question: What are the push and pull factors that can cause children to go missing?
You’ll find the answer on our Missing Children resource page… We have a whole set of quiz questions and scenarios for your team in our member resource packs.
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Please note that by entering your details to download any document on this page, you are signing up to our free fortnightly safeguarding bulletin keeping you up to date in developments in the world of safeguarding. You can unsubscribe at any time by following the link in the bulletin.
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Calendar dates
Foster Care Fortnight - 12th - 25th May
National Children's Day UK - 18th May
International Missing Children's Day - 25th May
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There are lots of benefits
Check out the different levels of membership to find one that suits you and your setting and ensure you have a structured approach in place.
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