Make a referral about a child
In Wakefield this goes to the Integrated Front Door (Social Care Direct).
Phone: 0345 8503 503
Out of hours: 0345 8503 503
Local safeguarding contacts › Wakefield
Safeguarding contacts for schools in Wakefield
Where a designated safeguarding lead in Wakefield makes a referral, raises an allegation about a member of staff, and finds the local threshold document. Every link goes to the council’s or Wakefield Safeguarding Children Partnership’s own pages.
If a child is in immediate danger, call 999.
Allegations about staff: the LADO
For a concern that an adult working with children may have harmed a child or may pose a risk. When to contact the LADO
Phone: 01977 727032
Threshold document
How Wakefield describes levels of need, from universal services to child protection. What a threshold document is
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