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Outer Hebrides Inter Agency Child Protection Procedures 2018 Outer Hebrides Inter -Agency Child Protection Procedures 2018 1 What is Child Abuse and Neglect? Signs and Symptoms Information for Children and Young People Who to Contact What to do if you are worried about a child or young person? If you are worried or concerned about a child or young person you should contact the Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Social Work Departments or Stornoway Police Office CnES Social Work Stornoway 01851 822749 Balivanich 01870 604880 Castlebay 01871 817217 All Police Offices can Police in the Outer Hebrides be contacted via 101 In an Emergency Call 999 Out of Hours Social Work 01851 701702 Document Control Outer Hebrides Child Protection Committee Guardian/Keeper: Child Protection Committee per the Child Protection Co-ordinator First Edition January 2013 Latest Version Approved by October 2018 CPC Review Date: Continuous 2 Foreword The protection of children and young people is everyone’s job and everyone’s responsibility. In the Outer Hebrides this is a shared responsibility and is promoted through the work of the multi-agency Chief Officers Group (COG) and the Child Protection Committee (CPC). The Chief Officers Group provides leadership, direction, scrutiny and support to child protection services across the Outer Hebrides. The Child Protection Committee is responsible for the design, development, publication, distribution, dissemination, implementation, evaluation and review of all inter-agency child protection policy and practice. Both partnerships are responsible for ensuring that child protection services remain compliant with existing and emerging national standards, meet local needs and expectations and ultimately provide better outcomes for children and young people. These inter-agency child protection procedures have been reviewed to take account of a number of recent legislative, policy and practice developments. Online safety, child trafficking and the protection of children affected by parental alcohol and/or drug misuse are only some of the specific issues that have become the focus of attention in recent times. One of the more fundamental developments, however, has been the move towards children’s services that put the interests of the child at the centre of every process and decision, building up from universal services: the Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) approach has been instrumental in this. These inter-agency child protection procedures also take account of messages from research, outcomes from public enquiries, multi-agency inspections and the findings and recommendations from Significant Case Reviews. These inter-agency child protection procedures have been produced to advise and support practitioners from all services/agencies and help inform the general public of our business arrangements. They complement, but do not replace, existing operational child protection guidelines/procedures held within individual services/agencies and to which staff must refer when responding to child protection concerns. The need for early identification, intervention and support, comprehensive and robust assessments, good communication and information sharing, sound decision making and outcome focused planning remain vital and these inter- agency child protection procedures support that approach. These inter-agency child protection procedures reflect our personal and shared commitment to child protection across the Outer Hebrides and demonstrate our individual and collective commitment to providing better outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and their families. Malcolm Burr Gordon Jamieson Ian Graham Chief Executive Chief Executive Area Commander Comhairle nan Eilean Siar NHS Western Isles Police Scotland 3 Introduction These inter-agency child protection procedures are aimed at practitioners and managers from all services/agencies who are responsible for the protection of children and young people across the Outer Hebrides and also the members of the public who wish to be better informed of the nature of child protection work. They contain the core information required by all services/agencies and complement, but do not replace, existing single service/agency child protection procedures. The overall aim of these inter-agency child protection procedures is to ensure that services/agencies providing services and support to children, young people and their families have an appreciation and understanding of other service/agency roles, responsibilities and legal powers. They also highlight the importance of, and encourage services/agencies to, communicate and share information about the circumstances and needs of children and families where necessary. This will result in the optimum use of experience and expertise in protecting children and young people. They seek to ensure that in acting to protect children and young people, services/agencies avoid causing them undue stress or adding unnecessarily to any harm already suffered by them. One agency acting on its own cannot protect children and neither can procedures in isolation. These procedures are primarily to ensure effective inter-agency communication, collaborative working and to provide a consistent framework for practice. Professional judgement based on thorough assessment and critical analysis is also required to ensure these procedures are applied appropriately to individual situations and specific needs of the child Staff require to be supported to develop skills and knowledge to make them confident and competent practitioners. Improving these attributes will allow complex and difficult decisions to be made which will increase the likelihood of better outcomes for children and young people. The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 has completed its passage through Parliament and guidance will be developed over the coming years to prepare for commencement of the provisions. The Scottish Government is working with Community Planning Partnerships to encourage the necessary changes in procedure and process to ensure readiness for the new duties. This guidance continues to reflect National Guidelines for Child Protection in Scotland 2014, references the anticipated new ways of working and procedures which some Community Planning Partnership areas are already implementing. This will help to minimise any update ahead of commencement once the guidance to support implementation of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 is completed it sets out duties on a range of public bodies to report on how they are taking forward children’s rights as set out in the UN Convention. Moreover, ratified by the UK Government in 2009, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities stipulates that in order for disabled children to be able to realise the rights mentioned above, they need to be provided with disability and age-appropriate assistance. Local training for both practitioners and managers will be undertaken to better inform staff and improve practice. 4 These inter-agency child protection procedures have been revised and produced in accordance with recent child protection policy, practice and legislative developments, particularly the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2014 and future iterations of this National Guidance and will take cognisance of other emerging national child protection policy, practice and legislative developments. They aim to ensure an informed and appropriate response for children and young people about whom practitioners, in key services/agencies, in the public, private and third sectors across the Outer Hebrides, may have child care and/or protection concerns. 5 How to Use these Guidelines These procedures have been produced to support, reflect and translate the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2014 into the local Outer Hebrides child protection working context/arrangements. These procedures do not replace the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2014, nor do they replace any existing single service/agency child protection policies, procedures and/or guidelines. On the contrary, they aim to support them and provide the over-arching policy framework, within which all other child protection policies, procedures and/or guidelines should fall. These guidelines are divided into five parts. Part I describes the policy and legislative framework which underpins child protection policy and practice in Scotland and in the Outer Hebrides; Part II provides a glossary of definitions, currently used in child protection and includes useful checklists on indicative signs and symptoms of potential harm and abuse; Part III describes in detail, the key component processes for all child care and/or protection concerns including what to do if you are worried about a child; investigation and response; information sharing; risk assessment; interviewing; medical examinations; child protection case conferences and the child protection register; Part IV provides further information on advice on a range of other key child protection issues which practitioners may identify and/or become involved in, keeping in mind this is not an all inclusive and/or exhaustive list of issues; Part V lists all relevant policy and legislation pertaining to the child protection landscape. Detailed information on the roles and remits of all private, public and independent sector agencies can be found by accessing the following web pages. Throughout these guidelines, practitioners will find many electronic and/or intelligent links for quick and easy reference to other key documents
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