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Forth Valley Public Protection Issue 1 - Winter 2016 Newsletter Welcome to the first edition of the Forth Valley Public Protection Newsletter. Inside this Issue Child Protection ____________ 2 This newsletter has Tyndrum Gender Based Violence ______ 4 been produced by the Crianlarich MAPPA Matters _____________ 6 Public Protection Lochearnhead Forth Valley Alcohol and lead officers across Balquhidder Clackmannanshire, Drugs Partnership __________ 8 Strathyre Falkirk and Stirling council Adult Support & Protection __ 10 areas and includes national and local information about child protection, adult protection, Callander substance misuse, gender based violence and the Multi-agency Aberfoyle Thornhill Dunblane Public Protection Arrangements. Bridge of Allan Menstrie Alva Dollar Tillicoultry Kippen Gargunnock Tullibody Details of all the multi-agency Clackmannan STIRLING ALLOA Clackmannan partnerships and the lead officers Fallin Bannockburn can be found below. Please do Drymen Balfron Cowie Airth Kincardine contact us if you want further Croftamie Killearn Fintry information or to discuss any of the Stenhousemuir Carronshore Denny Larbert Grangemouth Bonnybridge Bo’ness content of the newsletter further. Strathblane Banknock FALKIRK Laurieston Kilsyth Polmont Shieldhill Brightons Linlithgow California Maddiston Cumbernauld Slamannan Avonbridge Clackmannanshire and Stirling Forth Valley Alcohol And Drugs Falkirk Gender Based Violence Child Protection Committee Partnership Partnership Anne Salter Elaine Brown Gail Cook [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 01786 233851 01786 233542 07746 317640 Falkirk Child Protection Clackmannanshire Violence Forth Valley Mappa Committee Against Women Partnership Audrey Mistry Evelyn Kennedy Gail Cook mappaforthvalley@scotland. [email protected] [email protected] pnn.police.uk 01324 590544 07746 317640 01324 574933 Falkirk Adult Support & Clackmannanshire And Stirling Stirling Gender Based Violence Protection Committee Adult Support & Protection Partnership Alison Cooke Committee Ann Marie Sinclair [email protected] Anne Salter [email protected] [email protected] 01324 504358 01786 233519 01786 233851 1 Falkirk Child Protection Committee Listen to Me approach – Integrated trauma informed first aid and support for parent survivors. This approach is being developed locally to increase support to parent survivors of childhood National Child Protection Improvement trauma and abuse and parents impacted by their child or young Programme – 2016 person’s experience of abuse. On 25th February 2016, former Cabinet Secretary for Education and Life Long The aim is to develop a trauma 1st Learning, Angela Constance MSP announced a National Child Protection Aid and support framework and Improvement Programme for Scotland in a statement to Parliament. toolkit agreed by statutory and third sector partners that builds This programme consists of a number The focus has been on the following capacity and resource across of priority areas of work: areas: the workforce; aimed at offering • A review of elements of the Child • The role and function of Child parent survivor’s consistent trauma Protection System Protection Committees informed support and services at their chosen point of contact. • A review of practice in the • Child Protection Registers and Children’s Hearing system Case Conferences – what is A partnership proposal to help working well? develop and embed the approach • Scoping a programme of work was recently submitted for around leadership to develop • Significant and Initial Case Survivor Scotland Innovation and capacity Reviews – How and when are Development funding 2016-17 - • A review of the role of inspection these being undertaken? Towards Partnership Working. agencies • Children and families experiences Six month funding was awarded • Improving use of data and of Child Protection processes by Scottish Government for the evidence A programme of neglect period November 2016 – April 2017. Falkirk Health and Social • Action to address the impact of improvement work is also under Care Partnership are leading on neglect on children development. This is being supported by CELCIS and the Centre this alongside the development The programme runs alongside for Child Wellbeing and Protection, of services for adult survivors ongoing work on addressing child Stirling University. The objective is to of trauma within Falkirk. The sexual exploitation, child trafficking identify existing areas of promising Child Protection Committee and and internet safety. practice, whilst also examining ways Voluntary Children’s Services The Scottish Government in which to promote sustainable Forum are key partners in taking established a Systems Review Group improvements in practice – using this exciting initiative forward. which commenced in August 2016 evidence gathered on what works in Plans are underway to develop and is due to report on its findings relation to tackling chronic neglect. a system that enables statutory in December 2016. Catherine Dyer Intensive improvement focussed and third sector partners to share chairs the group which is supported work is expected to take place from information and resources across by the Centre for Excellence for January 2017. services to meet parent survivor Looked after Children in Scotland You can keep abreast of what personal outcomes. The resource (CELCIS), Strathclyde University, who is going on via the Scottish could be training places, materials have produced four background Government’s child protection web or members of staff or volunteers. papers to engage stakeholders pages: Alongside this is a commitment to and help frame discussions. Each offer a seamless service provision paper helpfully provides general www.gov.scot/Topics/People/ that gives the parent survivor background information; details of Young-People/protecting/child- choice and control and a focus on relevant legislation, policy, practice protection early intervention and prevention and the evidence base drawn from bringing benefits to the whole national, UK and international family. research. 2 Forth Valley Child Sexual Exploitation Project Board In December, 2012, Scottish on the University of Bedfordshire data shared with staff. Information Government invited Child Protection monitoring tool modified to reflect from the Data Monitoring Tool was Committees across Scotland to Scottish legislation and practice. collated after a year (from April, 2014 participate in a pilot using tools to March, 2015) and this informed Participation in the Scottish developed by the University of a review of the tool locally after Government pilot led to significant Bedfordshire in England in the consultation with staff which was developments across Forth Valley. area of Child Sexual Exploitation. shared with Scottish Government. There has been discussion of C.S.E. Following discussion with all issues in relevant partnerships The Forth Valley C.S.E. Project Board partners Clackmannanshire and including Child Protection held a Development Day in June, Stirling C.P.C. and Falkirk C.P.C. Committees, MAPPA, Alcohol and 2015, and subsequently developed a responded positively to this Drug Partnerships and the Gender revised Action Plan based on the four invitation in February, 2013, and the Based Violence Partnerships and Improvement Priorities in Scotland’s Forth Valley Child Sexual Exploitation briefings to councillors and elected National Action Plan to Prevent and Project Board was established and members. A C.S.E. Learning and Tackle Child Sexual Exploitation, met for the first time in June, 2013. Development Plan has been 2014, which are prevention/ In August, 2013, a multi-agency established which includes multi- awareness-raising, intervention, seminar led by Isabel Brodie from agency practitioner forums on C.S.E.; disruption/prosecution and recovery. the University of Bedfordshire, took targeted training for staff including place in Stirling and subsequently In August, 2015, a presentation residential staff and foster carers; the Project Board developed an on the Forth Valley Child Sexual participation in the Barnardos Training Action Plan based on the University Exploitation pilot was delivered to for trainers programme with a roll of Bedfordshire Self Assessment the Ministerial Working Group on out of training to all staff on a multi- Tool which included co-ordinating a Child Sexual Exploitation and the agency basis; and C.S.E. as the theme multi-agency approach; recognising National Child Sexual Exploitation for the Forth Valley Child Protection child sexual exploitation; supporting Working Group in Edinburgh and the Committees Annual Conference, young people and their families; work of the pilot in relation to data October, 2014. CSE Guidance and a identifying, investigating, disrupting monitoring has been shared with related Risk Matrix and Vulnerability and prosecuting abusers; and Child Protection Committees across Checklist have been developed and collecting and managing data based Scotland. Keeping Safe: the Views of Children and Young People During 2016 Andrea Priestley, From the findings Children’s Rights Officer, Stirling we were also Council, and Anne Salter, Lead Officer looking to address Child Protection, Clackmannanshire the question: what and Stirling Child Protection does this tell us Committee, met with children and about children and young people in four different school young people’s and community settings to find out understanding