Safeguarding Weekly Advice 

If you feel that a child is at risk of harm please don’t think that it is someone else’s responsibility to report it. Your action may be something that helps change a child’s life.  

What can you do: 

• If there is immediate risk you must call 999 and see immediate help 

• Contact the school and ask to speak to the DSL – Miss Donaghie or Mrs Wood, or someone else you feel you can talk to 

• Contact children services – Sandwell 0121 569 3100,  Walsall 0300 555 2866 (or Emergency Response Team on 0300 555 2922 for out of office hours  

• Contact the NSPCC: You can call the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 800 5000 or email help@nspcc.org.uk 

• Useful links:  https://www.sandwellchildrenstrust.org/report-child-risk/ 

• https://go.walsall.gov.uk/children-and-young-people/concerned-about-a-child-or-young-person