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

What happens next

  • Information Gathering and Discussion
  • Assessment of Information Recieved
  • Referral: Decision Making
  • Conducting Agency Enquiries
  • Initial Referral Discussions
  • Tripartite
  • Concerns about Child’s Immediate Safety
  • Responding to a Child Protection Concern
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