Child Protection Guidance

Protocol for Missing Children and Families

This guide should be followed and this form should be completed when anyone working with children and families, such as a health practitioner, teacher, nursery or play worker, becomes aware that a child or pregnant woman & unborn child is missing from a known address, school or a pre-school education provider and they have no forwarding information. Download the form here.

Social Networking Guidance for Professionals

The Highland E-Safety Group has produced Social Networking Guidance to support professionals in Highland learning communities. Following this guidance will help to keep you safer online and contribute to safer online communities for others too.

Cyberbullying, Safer Social Networking, Online Gaming, etc.

WithScotland have produced a series of factsheets which are vital to anyone concerned with our children’s online safety.

You can download them from this page

Mobile Phone Safety Advice

Each year an advice letter is provided by the Highland E-Safety Group for parents & carers of P7 pupils on Mobile Phone Safety during the early summer months as children make the transition to their secondary school. It is known that this is often a time when young people request a mobile phone in order to keep in touch with home and also be connected to their peers.

The Mobile Phone Advice Letter provides a good starting for parents & carers to discuss the safety aspects of owning a mobile phone and also learn about the new additional functions the latest smart phones provide. The advice has been developed to promote a safer online community and is part of the approach to learning about how to use technology safely and responsibly that takes place in schools.

Download the Mobile Phone Advice Letter

Go to the Highland E-Safety website

Inter-agency Guidelines to Protect Children and Young People in Highland
 

The Highland Child Protection Committee has updated (April 2011) its protection guidance in accordance with new national guidance published at the end of 2010.

The main changes, which are fairly minimal, are in sections:

1.5 to 1.7
2.0 and 2.8
4.7, 4.14, 4.15 and 4.19
12.12
Appendices B, C & G

To download the updated guidelines click here

For an outline of key changes click here

Community Groups Child Protection Guidance

This is specifically for the voluntary sector. The guidelines have recently been updated in line with changes to national and local Child Protection Guidance with additional information on the Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme (PVG Scheme).

Download the Child & Adult Protection Guidance for Community Groups in Highland.

Keeping Children Safe: What we all need to know to protect our children

Access the Scottish Government's Guidelines here

Keeping Children Safe: Information disclosure about child sexual offenders

Access the Scottish Government's Guidelines here