South Ayrshire Child Protection Procedures
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  • Contents
    • Introduction
      • Purpose of procedures
      • Who is a child?
      • Involvement of and transition to adult support and protection
      • Parents and relevant persons
      • Definition of abuse
        • Domestic abuse
        • Parental alcohol misuse and/or drug misuse
        • Non-engaging family
        • Parental mental health problems
        • Child placing themselves at risk
        • Sexual abuse
        • Organised abuse
        • Child exploitation
        • Physical abuse
        • Emotional abuse
        • Neglect
        • Children as abusers
        • Other concerns
      • Child protection registration
      • Significant harm
    • Worried about a child?
      • Worried about a child?
      • Responding to concerns
      • Discuss your concern
      • Sharing information
      • Consent
      • Refer and record a concern to Social Work Services (share your concerns)
    • What happens next
      • Information gathering and discussion
      • Assessment of information recieved
      • Referral (share your concerns): decision making
      • Conducting agency enquiries
      • Initial referral discussions (share your concerns)
      • Initial Referral Discussion
      • Concerns about child’s immediate safety
      • Responding to a child protection concern
    • Child protection investigation
      • Investigation of allegations of child abuse
      • Conducting the investigation – general
      • Planning the interview with the child
      • Seeking the child’s permission
      • Seeking parent’s permission
      • Conducting the interview
      • Child witness
      • Investigations of physical injury – specific issues
      • Investigation of allegations of physical neglect – specific issues
      • Investigation of allegations of failure to thrive – specific issues
      • Investigations of allegations of emotional abuse – specific issues
      • Investigation of allegations of child sexual abuse – specific issues
      • Sexual abuse by organised networks or multiple abusers
      • Investigations where children are affected by disability or additional support needs
      • Out of hours service and checks to the central child protection register
      • Keeping families involved
      • Where agreement cannot be reached on how to proceed between agencies and/or internally
      • Staff support and supervision
    • Child protection case conferences
      • Introduction
      • Child protection case conferences
        • Initial child protection conference
        • Pre-birth conferences
        • Review child protection conference
        • Transfer of cases
          • Transfer child protection conference
          • Transfer of child protection cases within South Ayrshire
          • Transfer from another local authority
          • Transfer to another local authority
          • Responsibility for convening the transfer child protection conference
      • Child protection case conference tasks
      • Child protection conferences – invitations, attendance and composition
      • Reports for child protection conferences
      • Requests for child protection conferences from other agencies, parents and children/young people
      • Criteria for registration
      • Criteria for de-registration
      • When a child’s name is placed on the child protection register
      • Child protection conferences and looked after and accommodated reviews
      • Referrals to the reporter (share your concerns)
      • Decision by children’s hearings or courts which are inconsistent with the decisions made at the child protection conference
      • Involvement of parents at child protection conferences
      • Involvement of children/young people at child protection conferences
      • Dissent on registration and key aspects
      • Appeals against registration by a child/young person or a parent
      • Minutes of the child protection conference
      • Outcomes of child protection conference
      • Child protection registration
      • Post-registration – the child protection plan
      • The role of the lead professional
      • Core groups
      • Supervision of child protection cases
      • Child protection and criminal justice
      • The imprisonment and preparation for release of offenders convicted of offences against children – circular no SW/11/1994
    • Legal measures
      • Child protection provisions – Children (Scotland) Act 1995
      • Child assessment order
      • Child protection order
      • Exclusion orders and interim exclusion orders
      • Emergency child protection measures
      • Police powers to take a child to a place of safety
    • Initial Referral Discussion (IRD)
      • Child protection initial referral discussion
      • Involvement of parents and children at initial referral discussions
      • Minutes of initial referral discussion
    • Getting It Right For Every Child
      • Who can consent to the sharing of personal information
      • How to seek, obtain and record consent (in appropriate circumstances)
      • Dealing with consent being refused
      • Consent is withdrawn
      • Someone may be unable to provide consent
      • Sharing information without seeking consent, or ignoring a refusal to share information about a vulnerable child or adult (in appropriate circumstances)
      • Information sharing pre birth
      • Review process
      • Sharing information about a person who may pose a significant risk to staff
    • Specific guidance for staff
      • Allegation of abuse by other children in residential care
      • Allegations of abuse perpetrated by staff members
      • Arrangements for child protection in the armed services
      • Children and prostitution
      • Children denied medical treatment
      • Children seeking refuge
      • Difficult or dangerous families
      • Fabricated or induced illness
      • Female genital mutilation: procedures
      • Forced marriage
      • Guidance for staff in educational establishments
      • Gypsy and traveller children
      • Housing and homelessness child protection policy
      • Investigation of allegations of abuse of children in foster care
      • Investigation of allegations of abuse of children in residential care
      • Investigations into allegations of abuse against members of staff in other local authority or organisation’s residential establishments
      • MAPPA – Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements
      • People/child trafficking
      • Protocol for child protection and domestic abuse alerts during school holidays
      • Quality assurance child protection information
      • Risk management protocol for children and young people with problematic sexual and violent behaviours
        • The initial risk management meeting
      • Runaway/missing children protocol
      • The imprisonment and preparation for release of offenders convicted of offences against children – circular no SW/11/1994
      • Training
      • Underage sexual activity
      • Validated self evaluation visit
    • Involvement of and transition to adult support and protection
    • Appendices
      • CP1 – Form and guidance
      • CP2 – Initial Child Protection Case Conference Minute
      • CP2 – Pre-birth Child Protection Case Conference Minute
      • CP3 – Review Child Protection Conference Minute
      • CP5 – Minute of child protection initial referral discussion including pre-birth case discussions
      • CP9 – Child’s Child Protection Plan and Minute of Core Group
      • High Risk Pregnancy Protocol pre-birth referral and assessment (share your concerns)
      • CP11 – Immediate Notification to Standby of Child Protection Alert
      • CP13 Forms
      • CP14 – Immediate Notification to Standby of Child Protection de-alert
      • Investigative Interview Manager/ Supervisor briefing and debriefing
      • Referral form (share your concerns) – referral of child/young person to children and families social work services
      • GIRFEC Integrated Assessment Framework
      • Child Protection Order
      • Child Protection Case File Front Sheet
      • Guidance on Tripartite referral (share your concerns) and discussion
      • Placement agreement
      • Post Admission Alert form
      • Post Admission Meeting Proforma
      • Letter advising another authority that we have a child placed there
      • Medical examination flowchart
      • South Ayrshire Council child protection leaflets
      • Child’s Assessment and Plan and Guidance notes
  • Contact

CP13 Forms

Immediate Notification to Standby of Child Protection Registration – CP13

Immediate Notification to Standby of Child Protection De-registration – CP13a

Immediate Notification to Standby of Child Protection Change of Registration Details

Immediate Notification to Standby of Child Protection Change of Registration Category

Notification to another authority of child living outwith South Ayrshire who is placed on CP register

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