{"id":14,"date":"2014-09-02T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T12:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/educationandchildren\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:49:50","slug":"child-protection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/childrens-social-care\/child-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Child protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Worried about a child’s safety?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you are concerned about the safety of a child in Devon or want to speak to someone, or if you are a child worried about your own safety, please make a request for support or report a child safety concern<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a child is at immediate risk, contact the police on 999<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

You can find out more about making a request for support<\/a> along with information about recognising the warning signs of child abuse, finding support and keeping children safe and healthy, on the Devon Safeguarding Children Partnership website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professionals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you are a professional and your enquiry is to discuss an allegation made against an adult working with children, please contact the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) service<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further guidance about making a request for support or reporting a child safety concern<\/a> is available on the Devon Safeguarding Children Partnership website.
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What to do if you are concerned about a child or young person in Devon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":554,"parent":64778,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 09:36:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71231,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/71231"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}