If you are worried about the welfare or safety of a child it is very important that you contact us.
Salford City Council and our partners have a multi agency hub called the Bridge Partnership that screen all contacts concerning the welfare or safety of a child to children's services.
The Bridge Partnership can be contacted by telephone on 0161 603 4500 from 8.30am to 4.30pm. If you need to speak to somebody about your referral of concern outside these hours, please call the Emergency Duty Team on 0161 794 8888.
All enquiries concerning the welfare or safety of a child must go through the Bridge Partnership via our online referral form below. If you need help completing the online referral form, download the guide at the bottom of this page.
Please note that once you start completing the form it must be completed within one hour.
If you are a practitioner and you want to make a referral to the Bridge Partnership, please use our online referral form below. If you need help completing the online referral form, download the guide at the bottom of this page.
There's a how to guide for completing the online referral form. One is for the public (family member, friend) and one is for practitioners. Download them at the bottom of this page.
If you need to submit Family Assessment forms, Team around the Family meeting invitations, or education welfare referral forms, please continue to visit our secure upload page.
If you have any safeguarding concerns about a person who may be vulnerable to radicalisation or being drawn into terrorism please complete the channel referral form below.
If a child is in immediate danger of being harmed, or if a child is home alone, the police should be called on 999.
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This page was last updated on 7 October 2019