Safeguarding help and advice
All agencies should have a designated or named person who can advise their colleagues on safeguarding children. For advice, contact the relevant designated adviser for your agency below.
- Southwark Primary Care NHS Trust
Designated doctor (Paediatrician): 020 3049 8009
Designated nurse: 020 3049 8133
Named doctor (Paediatrician): 020 3049 8018
Named nurses: 07789 741 518
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Named doctor: 020 7188 4635
Named nurse: 020 7188 2473
Named midwife: 020 3299 3084
- Kings College Hospital NHS Trust
Named doctor: 020 3299 3984
Named nurse: 020 3299 1185
Named midwife: 020 3299 4971
- South London and Maudsley NHS Trust
Named doctor: 020 7138 1591
Named nurse: 020 3228 3483
Children's social care
To make a referral of a child thought to be at risk of abuse or neglect, immediately contact the referral and assessment team at children's services on 020 7525 1921.
If your agency doesn't have its own guidance or specialist child protection advisor, contact the quality assurance unit and ask to speak to the duty child protection coordinator on 020 7525 3297 who can give you advice.
You can contact the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) on:
- 0207 525 0689 (LADO)
Education
Each school/education setting has its own designated persons for safeguarding children. For safeguarding advice from LA's Education Services, contact the Early Help Service (EHS) Duty Manager on 020 7525 3893/2702 or LA's Schools Safeguarding Coordinator on 020 7525 2715.
Police
You can contact the Metropolitan Police's child abuse investigation team on 020 7230 3700.
Page last updated: 05 November 2019
