Safeguarding terms and acronyms for schools in England, explained in plain words. Each term’s page links to its official source, mainly Keeping children safe in education 2026, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026, Working together to improve school attendance and the SEND Code of Practice.
159 terms. Checked against the official guidance on . Local procedures vary, so check your safeguarding partnership’s too.
The Ministry of Justice guidance on interviewing victims and witnesses, including children, for criminal proceedings. An "ABE interview" is a video-recorded interview by trained police officers or social workers that can be used as the child's evidence in court.
A potentially traumatic event or circumstance in childhood, such as abuse, neglect, domestic abuse at home, or a parent in prison, that can affect a child's health and wellbeing into adulthood.
A bias where adults see some children as older, more mature or less vulnerable than they are, so they respond to them as a threat or a wrongdoer rather than a child who needs protecting. It particularly affects Black children.
KCSIE sets five outcomes for an allegation against someone who works with children: substantiated, malicious, false, unsubstantiated and unfounded. The outcome decides what is kept on file and what goes in a reference.
Education arranged outside a mainstream or special school for pupils who can't attend one, for example because of exclusion, illness or behaviour. It includes pupil referral units, AP academies and non-school providers commissioned by schools or local authorities.
Changed in KCSIE 2026Read the guide
The national letters and symbols every school in England uses in its attendance register to record whether a pupil was present, absent and why. They are set in regulation 10 of the 2024 pupil registration regulations.
The allergy safety provisions of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, named after Benedict Blythe. Schools must have, review and publish an allergy safety policy.
In force from 1 September 2026Read the guide
Best Start Family Hubs are local centres that bring together services for families, especially health and education, from pregnancy to age 19, or 25 for young people with SEND. Working Together 2026 places them in universal and community-based early help.
The public body in England that represents children's interests in family court cases and advises the court on what is safe and in the child's best interests. In Wales the equivalent service is Cafcass Cymru.
A specialist police team that investigates abuse of children, often within a force's wider public protection department. Each force decides what its unit is called and how it is organised.
CAMHS is the name often used for the NHS mental health services for children and young people. The NHS now describes them more broadly as children and young people's mental health services (CYPMHS), which include Mental Health Support Teams in schools.
A care order is a court order under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 that places a child in the care of a local authority. The authority gains parental responsibility and the child becomes looked after. An interim care order (ICO) does the same while proceedings are under way.
When a person or group uses an imbalance of power to coerce, control, manipulate or deceive a child into criminal activity, in exchange for something the child needs or wants, for the exploiter's gain, or through violence or threats. The child is a victim even if they seem to go along with it.
Updated in KCSIE 2026Read the guide
A voluntary, confidential programme that gives early support to people who are susceptible to being drawn into terrorism. Cases are discussed by a multi-agency Channel panel, and support only starts with the person's consent.
Child protection is the multi-agency work that follows a concern that a specific child is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm. It is led by the local authority under section 47 of the Children Act 1989.
A multi-agency meeting, held after section 47 enquiries, that decides how to keep a child safe and whether a child protection plan is needed.
The separate, confidential record a school keeps for a child about safeguarding concerns, referrals, discussions, decisions and outcomes. The DSL is responsible for keeping it up to date and passing it on when the child moves school.
Childcare disqualification is an extra check for staff who work in, or manage, early years or later years childcare: in a school, mainly reception classes and wraparound care for children up to 8. A disqualified person cannot work in that provision unless Ofsted grants a waiver.
Abuse of children by other children, in or out of school and online.
See HSB
A register each local authority will have to keep of children not in school, under section 38 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026. The duty has not started yet.
Not in force yetRead the guide
Children with a social worker are those who have, or have had, a social worker because they are a child in need, are on a child protection plan or are looked after. KCSIE treats them as a group at greater risk of harm.
The children's barred list is the list, kept by the Disclosure and Barring Service, of people barred from regulated activity with children. It is an offence for a barred person to seek or do that work, and for an employer knowingly to let them.
The Act that became law on 29 April 2026 and is coming into force in stages, including the information sharing duty, children not in school registers and multi-agency child protection teams.
In force in stages from 2026Read the guide
A child who is unlikely to reach or keep a reasonable standard of health or development without local authority services, or who is disabled, under section 17 of the Children Act 1989.
Another name for a looked-after child.
See LAC
Children of compulsory school age who are not registered pupils at a school and are not receiving suitable education otherwise than at a school. A pupil who is on roll but often absent is not a child missing education.
A pattern of controlling behaviour used to dominate another person, for example by isolating, humiliating, threatening or monitoring them. It is a form of domestic abuse and a criminal offence.
A consistent identifier is a single number for each child that agencies would use so that information about the same child can be linked. The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 allows it, but the section is not in force yet and the number hasn't been chosen.
Not in force yetWhat it means for schools
An approach to harm young people face outside their families, in peer groups, at school, in local places and online, that works on making those places safer.
The core group is the small group of practitioners and family members who put a child protection plan into action. Its members are named at the initial child protection conference, and it should first meet within 10 working days.
Gangs and organised criminal networks moving illegal drugs using dedicated phone lines or other "deal lines", and exploiting children and vulnerable adults to move, store and sell the drugs and money. It is a form of child criminal exploitation.
See Child protection.
See Child protection
A child protection plan is the multi-agency plan agreed at a child protection conference when a child is judged to be at continuing risk of significant harm. It sets out what each agency and the family will do to keep the child safe, and is reviewed at least every six months.
Children's social care is the local authority service that assesses children in need, carries out child protection enquiries and looks after children in care. Schools refer to it when a child may need statutory help or protection.
A form of child sexual abuse where a person or group uses an imbalance of power to coerce, manipulate or deceive a child into sexual activity, in exchange for something the child needs or wants, or for the abuser's gain. It can happen even when the activity seems consensual.
Updated in KCSIE 2026What it means for schools
A child safeguarding practice review looks at a serious child safeguarding case to learn how agencies can work better. Local reviews are commissioned by the safeguarding partners; national reviews by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel. They replaced serious case reviews.
Changed in 2026Read the guide
The Disclosure and Barring Service is the government body that carries out criminal record checks and keeps the lists of people barred from working with children and adults. Schools use its checks before appointing staff.
See Deputy DSL.
See Deputy DSL
A member of staff trained to the same standard as the DSL who carries out safeguarding work the DSL delegates. Lead responsibility stays with the DSL.
The designated teacher is the member of staff a maintained school or academy must appoint to promote the educational achievement of its looked-after and previously looked-after pupils.
When a child tells someone, directly or indirectly, that they are being or have been harmed, abused, neglected or exploited. The adult's job is to listen, reassure, record and pass it on to the DSL, not to investigate.
Abusive behaviour between people aged 16 or over who are personally connected, such as partners, ex-partners or family members. It includes physical, sexual, economic, emotional and controlling or coercive abuse. Children who see, hear or experience its effects are victims in their own right.
The senior member of staff, from the leadership team, who takes lead responsibility for safeguarding and child protection in a school, including online safety.
DSP is another name for the person who leads on safeguarding in a school. In England the statutory guidance calls this role the designated safeguarding lead (DSL); DSP is the term used in Wales.
Schools have a legal duty to refer someone to the Disclosure and Barring Service when they remove them from regulated activity, or would have done had the person not left, because they harmed or posed a risk of harm to a child. The DBS then decides whether to bar them.
Support for children and families as soon as problems emerge. Targeted early help is now part of Family Help.
See Family Help
An early help assessment is an assessment, done with a family's agreement, of what help a child and family need before statutory services are involved. Working Together 2026 replaces it with a single Family Help assessment, though many areas still use the old name.
Changed in 2026What it means for schools
An EHC needs assessment is the local authority's statutory assessment of a child or young person's education, health and care needs, to decide whether they need an EHCP. Parents, young people and schools can ask for one.
An education, health and care plan is a legal document from the local authority describing a child or young person's special educational needs, the outcomes sought and the provision that must be made to meet them. It covers ages 0 to 25.
Reform proposed, not lawWhat it means for schools
When parents choose to educate their child at home, or otherwise than at school, instead of sending them to school. Parents have the right to do this, but the education must be efficient, full time and suitable.
Changes in 2026 Act not in force yetWhat it means for schools
Persistent emotional ill-treatment of a child that has a severe and adverse effect on their emotional development. It can include making a child feel worthless or unloved, verbal abuse, frightening them, or exposing them to the ill-treatment of others.
Updated in KCSIE 2026What it means for schools
An emergency protection order is a short court order under section 44 of the Children Act 1989 that lets a child be removed to, or kept in, a safe place when there is a risk of significant harm. It lasts up to eight days and can be extended once by up to seven days.
A family court order that puts a child of compulsory school age under the supervision of the local authority, so it can advise, help and direct the pupil and parents to secure the child's education. It is a formal step that avoids prosecution.
Abuse and exploitation that children experience outside their family or the home they live in: at school, in peer groups, in community spaces and online, from adults or other children. There is no legal definition of the term.
In KCSIE, the vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values: democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. Radicalisation is the process by which a person comes to support or use terrorist violence.
The Families First Partnership programme is the DfE programme helping local areas reform children's social care, including setting up Family Help. Its programme guide is the operational toolkit Working Together 2026 points to.
Family Help offer due by March 2027What it means for schools
A family group conference is a meeting where a child's wider family network makes its own plan to keep the child safe, with preparation and support from an independent coordinator. It is the best-known model of family group decision-making.
The name Working Together 2026 gives to targeted early help and child in need support brought together into one voluntary offer, with a lead practitioner for each family.
From Working Together 2026Read the guide
All procedures that partly or totally remove the external female genitalia, or otherwise injure the female genital organs, for non-medical reasons. It is illegal in the UK and is child abuse. Teachers have a legal duty to report known cases in girls under 18 to the police.
When a parent or carer makes up or exaggerates the symptoms of illness in a child, or deliberately causes them. KCSIE and Working Together treat it as a form of physical abuse.
The systems that block harmful content on a school’s internet and flag concerning activity. Governors should make sure they are in place and reviewed at least once a year.
A marriage that one or both people have not fully and freely agreed to, where violence, threats or other pressure is used. It is a crime in England and Wales, and since February 2023 it has also been a crime to cause a child to marry before 18, even without coercion.
The Fraser guidelines are the conditions, set out by Lord Fraser in the 1985 Gillick case, under which a health professional can give contraceptive advice or treatment to a young person under 16 without their parents' knowledge or consent.
The "front door" is the informal name for the place where a local authority receives contacts and referrals about children, decides what happens next and sends each case to the right service. It isn't a term in the statutory guidance, and every area organises it differently.
A child under 16 is Gillick competent if they have enough understanding and intelligence to fully understand what is proposed, such as medical treatment, and so can consent for themselves. The test comes from a 1985 House of Lords case.
The harm threshold is the test in KCSIE for deciding whether a concern about an adult who works with children is an allegation for the LADO, or a low-level concern for the school to manage. It has four parts.
Abuse or crimes committed to protect or defend the supposed 'honour' of a family or community, including female genital mutilation, forced marriage and practices such as breast ironing. All forms are abuse, whatever the motive.
Sexual behaviour by children that is developmentally inappropriate and may harm themselves or others. It is one form of child-on-child abuse.
The first child protection conference, which decides whether a child protection plan is needed.
An individual healthcare plan sets out what a school will do to support a pupil with a medical condition: the condition, its triggers and signs, treatment, who does what, and what to do in an emergency. Not every child with a medical condition needs one.
Allergy duty from 1 September 2026What it means for schools
Passing relevant information about a child to the people and agencies who need it to keep the child safe. Data protection law does not prevent it, and consent is not needed where there is another lawful basis.
Changed in 2026Read the guide
The information sharing duty is a legal duty, in section 16LA of the Children Act 2004, for organisations covered by it to share information relevant to a child's safety or welfare with each other. It came into force on 30 September 2026 and the DfE says it applies to education.
In force from 30 September 2026What it means for schools
An independent reviewing officer is the person a local authority must appoint for every looked-after child to chair their care plan reviews and check that the authority is meeting its duties to the child.
The DfE’s statutory safeguarding guidance for schools and colleges in England. The 2026 edition came into force on 1 September 2026.
KCSIE 2026 in force from 1 September 2026Read the guide
The trained member of school staff, usually the DSL, who receives Operation Encompass notifications.
Kinship care is when a child lives full time, or most of the time, with a relative, friend or other connected person who is not their parent. It can be informal or formal, for example through a special guardianship order or kinship foster care.
A looked-after child is a child in the care of a local authority under a care order, or accommodated by the local authority, for example under section 20 of the Children Act 1989, for more than 24 hours. CLA (child looked after) means the same thing.
The person or team in each local authority who oversees allegations that someone working with children may have harmed a child or may pose a risk to children.
The practitioner who coordinates Family Help for a family. School staff can take the role.
See Family Help
"Level 3" is a label training providers use for courses aimed at designated safeguarding leads. It isn’t a term in KCSIE, which instead says what DSL training should cover and that it should be updated at least every two years.
Any concern about an adult working in or for a school, however small, that does not fit the staff code of conduct but does not meet the harm threshold.
LSCP is the name many areas use for their local multi-agency safeguarding arrangements, led by the three safeguarding partners: the local authority, the integrated care board and the police. They replaced Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs).
Used for both the local safeguarding partnership and the lead safeguarding partner.
See LSCP
The arrangements through which the police, probation and prison services work together, with other agencies, to manage the risk posed by certain sexual and violent offenders living in the community.
A regular local meeting where agencies share information and agree actions to protect adult victims of domestic abuse at high risk of serious harm or homicide, and their children. It is non-statutory.
The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, named after Martyn Hett, which will require some premises, including many schools, to have procedures to reduce harm from a terrorist attack.
A local team where children’s social care, police, health and others receive and screen safeguarding referrals together. Not every area has one, and names vary.
Slavery, servitude, forced labour and human trafficking. Child victims are referred through the National Referral Mechanism.
See NRM
Multi-agency child protection teams are teams that safeguarding partners will have to set up to support local authorities' section 47 child protection enquiries, under section 3 of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026. The section is not in force yet; the DfE's aim is 2027.
Not in force yetWhat it means for schools
The persistent failure to meet a child's basic physical or emotional needs, in a way that is likely to seriously harm their health or development. It is one of the four categories of abuse and neglect that all school staff should know.
NFA means a decision that no further action will be taken on a referral, an allegation or a criminal investigation. It records the end of one agency's involvement, not that nothing happened.
The UK's framework for identifying and supporting potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking. Children don't need to consent to be referred, and referrals are made by "First Responders" such as local authorities and the police, not schools.
The scheme through which police tell a child’s school, before the next school day, that they attended a domestic abuse incident connected to the child.
Police duty since 7 November 2025Read the guide
Parental responsibility (PR) is all the legal rights, duties, powers and authority a parent has for a child. Mothers always have it; fathers and second parents have it in some circumstances; others can get it through court orders.
A temporary reduced timetable, allowed only in very exceptional circumstances where it is in the pupil’s best interests, agreed with the parent and reviewed regularly.
A fine issued to a parent for a child’s unauthorised absence. It must be considered once a pupil has 10 sessions of unauthorised absence in a rolling 10 school weeks.
A personal education plan is the part of a looked-after child's care plan that sets out their education needs, targets and support. Every looked-after child must have one.
A pupil is persistently absent when they miss 10% or more of their possible sessions, and severely absent when they miss 50% or more.
Abuse that causes physical harm to a child, such as hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning, scalding, drowning or suffocating. It also covers a parent or carer making up the symptoms of illness in a child, or deliberately causing it.
A previously looked-after child is one who left local authority care in England or Wales through adoption, a special guardianship order or a child arrangements order, or who was adopted from state care outside England and Wales.
Police protection is the power under section 46 of the Children Act 1989 for a police officer to remove a child to suitable accommodation, or keep them somewhere safe, if they believe the child would otherwise be likely to suffer significant harm. It lasts no more than 72 hours.
A person aged 18 or over is in a position of trust when they look after children in certain settings, including a school. It is a criminal offence for them to engage in sexual activity with a child under 18 in their care, even if the young person is over 16 and consents.
A police form or notification recording a safeguarding concern about a child or adult that officers have come across, used to share that concern with children's social care and sometimes schools. Names, forms and what reaches schools vary by force.
Pre-proceedings is the stage where a local authority believes the threshold for care proceedings may be met and gives the parents a last chance to make changes before it applies to court. It is often called the PLO stage, after the Public Law Outline.
The government programme to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Schools have a legal duty, the Prevent duty, to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism, as part of their wider safeguarding work.
When a child under 16 (under 18 if disabled) is cared for and housed for 28 days or more by someone who is not a parent, a person with parental responsibility or a close relative.
A prohibition order bars a person from carrying out teaching work in schools in England. It is made by the Secretary of State after a Teaching Regulation Agency panel, and an interim order can apply while a case is considered.
A local authority school for pupils who can’t attend a mainstream school, often after exclusion. A form of alternative provision.
See AP
The process by which a person comes to support terrorism or extremist ideologies.
See Extremism
The quick review safeguarding partners carry out after a serious child safeguarding incident.
See CSPR
A later conference that reviews the child protection plan and whether it is still needed.
Reasonable force is physical contact that school staff use to control or restrain a pupil, such as guiding a child away from danger or breaking up a fight. "Reasonable" means no more force than is needed, for the shortest time.
Regulated activity is work with children, defined in law, that a barred person must not do. In a school it covers most staff, and since 1 September 2026 it also covers volunteers who teach, train, instruct or supervise children on more than 3 days in 30, or overnight.
Changed in 2026Read the guide
A relevant agency is an organisation the safeguarding partners name as needing to be involved in their local safeguarding arrangements. Once a school is named, it is under a statutory duty to co-operate with those arrangements.
Deleting a pupil's name from the school's admission register. A school may only do this on one of the grounds in regulation 9 of the School Attendance (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2024, and must do so when one applies.
Safeguarding means protecting children from maltreatment and acting to give every child the best outcomes. It is wider than child protection: it starts with spotting and meeting needs early, long before a child is at risk of significant harm.
A date-ordered summary of significant events in a child’s life, with the source of each, its impact on the child and what was done.
The governor or trustee who leads on safeguarding for the board. They check that arrangements work; they don’t manage cases.
The safeguarding partners are the three organisations that lead local child safeguarding arrangements in each area: the local authority, the integrated care board (ICB) and the chief officer of police. Schools are not a safeguarding partner.
Change pendingWhat it means for schools
Safer recruitment is the set of steps a school takes to deter, reject or identify people who are unsuitable to work with children, from the advert to the checks after appointment. The rules are in Part three of KCSIE.
A legal order from the local authority requiring a parent to register their child at a named school, because the child is not receiving suitable education. Failing to comply is a criminal offence.
Changes in 2026 Act not in force yetWhat it means for schools
The record every school in England must keep of the pre-appointment checks carried out on its staff, supply staff and, in academies and independent schools, the proprietor body.
Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 requires named organisations, such as local authorities, the NHS, police and youth offending teams, to carry out their functions with regard to the need to safeguard and promote children's welfare. Schools are not on the list; their equivalent duty is in the Education Act 2002.
A check that someone is not barred from taking part in the management of an independent school, academy or free school.
The section of the Children Act 1989 under which local authorities support children in need.
See CIN
An annual self-assessment of a school’s safeguarding arrangements, usually requested by the local safeguarding partnership. Named after section 175 of the Education Act 2002.
Section 20 of the Children Act 1989 is the duty on a local authority to provide accommodation for a child in need who needs it, for example because no one with parental responsibility can care for them. A child accommodated for more than 24 hours becomes looked after.
The enquiries a local authority must make under section 47 of the Children Act 1989 when it has reasonable cause to suspect a child is suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm.
SEMH is one of the four broad areas of special educational need in the SEND Code of Practice. It covers social and emotional difficulties, which may show as withdrawal or as challenging behaviour, and underlying mental health needs.
SEN support is the help a school gives a pupil with special educational needs who doesn't have an EHCP. It follows a four-part cycle of assess, plan, do and review, called the graduated approach.
The SENCO is the qualified teacher a mainstream school must designate to coordinate provision for pupils with special educational needs. New SENCOs must gain the mandatory SENCO qualification within three years of appointment.
A child or young person has special educational needs (SEN) if they have a learning difficulty or disability that calls for special educational provision. SEND adds disabilities, which are defined separately under the Equality Act 2010.
Reform proposed, not lawWhat it means for schools
The old name for a local child safeguarding practice review.
See CSPR
Violence such as assault, knife and gun crime, and threats with weapons, often linked to peer conflict, gangs or criminal exploitation. KCSIE 2026 asks staff to report any concern about a child carrying or using a weapon to the DSL.
Updated in KCSIE 2026Read the guide
Missing 50% or more of possible sessions.
Forcing, causing or inciting a child to take part in sexual activities, whether or not violence is used and whether or not the child knows what is happening. It includes contact and non-contact abuse, online and offline.
Updated in KCSIE 2026What it means for schools
In KCSIE, sexual harassment means unwanted conduct of a sexual nature between children, online or offline. Sexual violence means the sexual offences of rape, assault by penetration, sexual assault and causing someone to engage in sexual activity without consent.
A special guardianship order is a court order appointing someone other than a parent, often a relative, as a child's special guardian. The special guardian has parental responsibility and can usually make decisions without the parents' agreement.
Children sending or posting nude or semi-nude images, videos or live streams, including AI-generated or altered images. Every incident needs a safeguarding response.
Significant harm is the legal threshold for child protection in England. When there is reasonable cause to suspect a child is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm, the local authority must make enquiries under section 47 of the Children Act 1989.
See SCR.
See SCR
A multi-agency discussion held when there is reasonable cause to suspect significant harm, to plan next steps.
A suspension removes a pupil from school for a fixed period. A permanent exclusion removes them from the school roll. Only the headteacher can suspend or exclude.
TAC (team around the child) and TAF (team around the family) mean the group of practitioners working with a child or family, and the regular meetings where they review the plan together. They are local terms, mostly used for early help and Family Help.
A memory aid for open questions when a child makes a disclosure: "Tell me...", "Explain...", "Describe...". It is a training prompt used in many schools and local areas, not a term from statutory guidance.
The four areas of online risk in KCSIE: content (harmful material), contact (harmful interaction with others), conduct (behaviour that causes or risks harm) and commerce (gambling, advertising, phishing and scams).
Updated in KCSIE 2026What it means for schools
A threshold document is the local guide, published by the safeguarding partners, that sets out the levels of need in an area and which kind of help, assessment or referral fits each one. Every area has its own, and the names and levels vary.
Changed in 2026What it means for schools
The Teaching Regulation Agency is the part of the Department for Education that regulates the teaching profession in England. It investigates serious misconduct by teachers, and the Secretary of State can then make a prohibition order.
The four categories of abuse used in Keeping children safe in education and Working Together: physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and neglect.
An unaccompanied asylum-seeking child is a child claiming asylum in their own right who is separated from both parents and not being cared for by an adult who has responsibility for them by law or custom.
Absence the school has not given permission for and has not accepted a reason for. In the register it is recorded with code G, N, O or U.
Taking a picture under a person's clothing without their permission, to see their genitals or buttocks for sexual gratification or to humiliate, distress or alarm them. It is a criminal offence and a form of child-on-child abuse when one pupil does it to another.
Finding out what a child thinks, wants and feels, and letting it shape the decisions made about them.
The virtual school head is the local authority officer responsible for promoting the education of the children it looks after, wherever they go to school. The team they lead is usually called the virtual school.
Whistleblowing is when a member of staff or volunteer raises a concern about poor or unsafe practice, or a failure in the school’s safeguarding. Schools should have a procedure for it, and staff can go outside the school if they need to.
The DfE's statutory guidance on school attendance for schools, academy trusts, governing bodies and local authorities in England. It has been statutory since 19 August 2024, and the current edition was published in July 2026.
Updated July 2026What it means for schools
Working Together to Safeguard Children is the statutory guidance on how every agency in England works together to help and protect children. The current edition, Working Together 2026, was published on GOV.UK on 18 March 2026 and introduced Family Help.
Updated March 2026Read the guide
The local multi-agency team that works with children who are in trouble with the law, supervising them through pre-court and court processes. In law they are youth offending teams (YOTs); many areas now call them youth justice services.
A young carer is anyone under 18 who provides, or intends to provide, care for another person, unless it is paid work or formal volunteering. The person cared for can be a parent, sibling or anyone else.
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