Information for Professionals

Whether you work with children and young people or with adults who are parents/carers, or likely to become so, you need to be aware of child protection issues. You have a duty to put the welfare of the child first, over and above all other duties to your adult clients. This includes sharing information for the protection of the child.

The Highland Children's Services Practice Guidance explains these duties in more detail and further information on the Highland Practice Model, and the training available to practitioners, can be found in dedicated sections of this website.

Good practice in child protection is constantly evolving. It is informed by the lessons drawn from reviewing serious and critical incidents e.g. Victoria Climbie, Caleb Ness, Danielle Reid, etc. It is also informed by multi-disciplinary inspection and ongoing academic research.

DID YOU KNOW? Highland CPC has a small lending library based at Kinmylies as well as access to electronic copies of a wide variety of Child Protection publications. Highland CPC also has BASPCAN membership and is entitled to access the Child Abuse Review Journal. The link should give access to the contents list for each journal. If you are a member of staff in a CPC partner agency and require a copy of a particular item please contact the CPC support team at Kinmylies: 01463 703483. 
The links on this page will take you to a range of gateways to information and support:
 

Scottish Child Care & Protection Network - The connections section of this site is comprehensive.

Multi-Agency Resource Service

NICE guidelines on signs of child maltreatment

Core information on aspects of physical child abuse

Hands On Scotland emotional wellbeing toolkit

Centre for Excellence and outcomes in Children and Young People's Services

 BMA Child Protection Resources

Specific Research:

Parenting and children's resiliance in disadvantaged communities

 Presentations:

North of Scotland Welbeing in Sexual Health (WISH) Event 10th November 2010
This event considered the implications of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009, which came into force on 1st December 2010 and has significant implications for child protection and for the delivery of sexual health services.

Child Sexual Abuse Summit February 2010

Connecting Research and Practice
SNAPY and SCCPN seminar on children affected by parental alcohol use - link to presentations.

Conference Reports:

Members of Highland CPC Training Group take responsibility for maintaining specialist Child Protection knowledge. In addition the CPC and Safer Highland support staff attend conferences on generic and cross-cutting issues. Short conference reports are produced detailing key messages and giving contact details for further information:

Other Useful Links:

Key Messages for Practice (External Link to Haringey LSCB lessons from SCRs)