Children and Families Social Work

Advocacy

Listening to a child, or an adult who cares for the child and working out with them how to represent their views, experiences and needs within assessment, planning and decision-making processes

Care and Risk Management

Processes which are applied when a child between the ages of 12 and 17 has been involved in behaviours which could cause serious harm to others.

Chief Officers Group

collective expression for the Local Police Commander and Chief Executives of the local authority and NHS Board in each local area

Child’s plan/Child Protection Plan

Where those working with the child and family have evidence to indicate that support across services may be required to meet the child’s wellbeing needs, a child’s plan is drawn up to co‑ordinate a single plan of action

Child protection

The processes involved in consideration, assessment and planning of required action, together with the actions themselves, where there are concerns that a child may be at risk of harm from abuse, neglect or exploitation:

Child Protection Planning Meeting

meeting is to consider and agree an assessment of risk and form a plan of required action to protect a child or young person. Participants are those persons essential to the Child Protection Plan.

Child Protection Committee

locally-based, inter-agency strategic partnership responsible for child protection policy and practice across the public, private and Third Sectors. Working on behalf of Chief Officers, its role is to provide individual and collective leadership and direction for the management of child protection services in its area.

child protection register

local authorities are responsible for maintaining a central register of those subject to a child protection plan

Core Group

group of identified practitioners, and child/family including the lead professional, who liaise regularly between Child Protection Planning Meetings to ensure that actions are being progressed and to monitor risk

Disabled children

social model of disability in which the barriers created by society are recognised as a cause of disadvantage and exclusion, rather than the impairment itself

Domestic abuse

a form of violence, committed predominantly by men, predominantly towards women. It is any form of physical, verbal, sexual, psychological or financial abuse which might amount to criminal conduct and takes place within the context of a relationship between partners

Harm

Impairment of the health or development of the child, including, for example, impairment suffered as a result of seeing or hearing the ill treatment of another

Risk

probability of harm given the presence of adverse factors in a child’s life.

significant harm

s interruption, change or damage to a child’s physical, emotional, intellectual or behavioural health and development.

Inter-agency referral discussion

formal process of information sharing, assessment, analysis and decision-making following reported concern about abuse or neglect of a child or young person

Joint Investigative Interviews

formal interviews of children conducted by trained police officers and social workers where there is a concern that a child is a victim of, or witness to, criminal conduct, and where there is information to suggest that the child has been or is being abused or neglected, or may be at risk of significant harm.

Lead professional

social worker who leads and co‑ordinates the multi-disciplinary child protection assessment, and oversees implementation of actions to protect the child.

My World Triangle

a starting point for considering what risks might be present in a child’s life: a starting point for considering what risks might be present in a child’s life

Named person

professional point of contact within universal services, if a child, young person or their parents need information, advice or help

Notification of Concern:

concerns about possible harm to a child arise, these should always be shared with the appropriate agency (normally police or social work) so that staff responsible for investigating the circumstances can determine whether that harm is significant.

parent

legal mother or father of the child

carer

is someone other than a parent who is looking after a child.

ACR:

Age of criminal responsibility

CAMHS

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

CARM

Care and Risk Management

CCE

Child criminal exploitation

CELCIS

Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection

CHS

Children's Hearings Scotland

CICA

Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

CPO

Child protection order

COG

Chief Officers Group

CSA

Child sexual abuse

CPC

Child Protection Committee

CPCC

Child Protection Committee Chairs

COPFS

Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service

COSLA

Convention of Scottish Local Authorities

CSO

Compulsory Supervision Order

CYCJ

Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice

CPPM

Child Protection Planning Meeting

CSE

Child sexual exploitation

CSWO

Chief Social Work Officer

FASD

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

FII

Fabricated or induced Illness

FNP

Family Nurse Partnership

HBA

Honour-based abuse

ICR

Independent Care Review

IRD

Inter-agency referral discussion

JII

Joint Investigative Interview

JPFE

Joint Paediatric Forensic Examination

PRR

Parental responsibilities and rights

LAAC

Looked after and accommodated child

MAPPA

Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements

SID

Sudden Infant Death

SCRA

Scottish Children's Reporter Administration

SCLD

Scottish Commission for Learning Disability

SOS

Signs of Safety

SPS

Scottish Prison Service

TEPOs

Trafficking and Exploitation Prevention Orders

TEROs

Trafficking and Exploitation Risk Orders

UASC

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking child

VAWG

Violence against women and girls

VISOR

Violent and Sex Offender Register

immedietly

when to share child protection concern

ASAP

when to have IRD

5 days

how much notice to give participants of CPPM

28 days

when to have CPPM

10 days

records be sent to participants of CPPM

15 days

Core group meet after CPPM