Education Toolkit

You can also seek advice from a social worker by contacting the MASH Professionals Consultation Line  0208 726 6464 (Monday to Friday, 13.00pm - 4.30pm).

If the child has an allocated social worker or key worker, please contact the worker or their team directly, or call on 0208 726 6000, Option 1. Alternatively, you can email MASHEducation@croydon.gov.uk who will assist in providing the details.

If you have an urgent concern about a child that needs an immediate response, please contact 0208 255 2888 (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm) or our Emergency Duty Team on 0208 726 6400 outside of these hours.

Please use this link to make a referral to MASH via our portal. Please note we only accept referrals via the portal. If your referral is urgent, please follow up with a phone call to the urgent line to advise of the urgency. If you are unable to get through, please email MASHEducation@croydon.gov.uk who will alert the MASH team.

The Threshold guidance will assist in referring to the correct service for support.

Access the Threshold Guidance here 

The HRAF is an opportunity to discuss concerns around a child/young person’s behaviour which could have the potential to develop further if not disrupted.

It could also be behaviour that is already showing abusive traits within a child / young person’s relationships. The behaviour can be physical, sexual, emotional, or coercive and can be directed towards a ‘partner’, friend, or family member. The forum will be made up of several professionals from non-statutory services who may be able to advise, signpost of offer direct support in extreme cases.

Resources

• Healthy Relationship Advisory Forum Intro
• Healthy Relationship Advisory Forum Referral
• Leaflet

Following the OFSTED review of Sexual Abuse in Schools and Colleges, June 2021, Croydon was proactive in exploring and responding to the issues within our schools. The following document provides information and guidance about Croydon as well as the wider context of Child-on-Child abuse but also is a practical guide, providing links, resources, slides and more to support schools and colleges in understand and addressing the issues.

Resources

• Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
• HSB Model Risk Assessment
• Taking Action - Croydon's response to sexual abuse in schools
• Staff sexual abuse in schools training slides

Please find the Croydon suspensions and exclusions documents below. When submitting a permanent exclusion form, please include the exclusion letter sent to parents.

Resources

• Permanent Exclusion Notification Form
• Suspension Notification Form v2

Croydon is proud to run monthly primary and secondary inclusive practice forums (formerly known as Fair Access Panel/FAP).

SIP Dates 

SIP Documents & Forms

• Secondary Inclusive Practice Forum Dates and Deadlines 2023-24
• New SIP Forum Referral Form - School Year 2023-24 v2
• Croydon Secondary Inclusive Practice Forum Guidance September 2023

PIP Dates

PIP Documents & Forms

• Croydon Approach to Primary Exclusion Prevention FA Appendix A V2
• Primary Inclusive Practice Forum Meeting dates 2023-24
• Primary Inclusive Practice Forum Referral 2023-24

Please use the following links to access the relevant documents.

• Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023 (Statutory Guidance for Schools and Colleges)
• Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023
• Prevent duty guidance: for England and Wales (accessible) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
• FGM Mandatory Reporting - Procedural Information
• Searching Screening Confiscation Guidance
• When to call Police - Guidance for Schools and Colleges

Below are summaries of the school/college section 11 safeguarding audit outcomes.

• Safeguarding Audit Report 2024
• Safeguarding Audit Report 2023