This guidance report aims to help protect children from involvement in violence. It offers senior leaders in children’s services seven evidence-based recommendations focused on three areas: strengthening safeguarding responses to extra-familial harm (including serious violence); improving access to evidence-based interventions; and proactively safeguarding children in care from violence. The guidance is primarily written for senior leaders in children’s services in England and Wales, including Directors of Children’s Services and Assistant Directors in England.