If you are concerned that a child may be at risk of harm from abuse or neglect, then please contact one of the Family Teams in the Care and Learning Service.
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If you have a concern about a child or young person or any other queries and are unsure which number to contact please call one of the numbers below to signpost you to the right person/team:
If you are worried that a child is at immediate risk of harm then phone the Police without delay.
07917 596598
(Mon-Wed only)
Consulting with our Youngest Children Toolkit
The strategies in this tool can be used by adults working on an individual basis with a young child for a specific purpose or by adults who have significant contact with young children on a frequent basis embedding meaningful consultation in daily practice.
To download a file to your computer, press the 
icon, which you can find on the right-hand side of the screen when you hover over a file.
Please find below some websites containing useful information on various related subjects:
Cyber Resilience – Cyber Resilience COVID-19 Bulletin
www.forhighlandschildren.org (Gateway for children’s services in Highland)
www.carersuk.org (Carers Scotland)
www.hcpc.scot – Highland Child Protection Committee
http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_55497.html – Moray Child Protection Committee
www.nspcc.org.uk (NSPCC)
parentinfo.org (expert information to help children and young people stay safe online, for schools to host on their own websites)
www.stopitnow.org.uk (Stop it Now! Child sexual abuse prevention)
www.childnet-int.org (Childline, counselling for children & young people)
www.sccyp.org.uk/ (Scotland’s Commissioner for Children & Young People)
Stop it Now is a Child Protection Campaign run by the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, the only UK-wide charity focussed solely on the risk of children being sexually abused.
Please take a couple of minutes, to watch Stop it Now’s short film which illustrates:
You can also view the Stop it Now! presentation for further info on illegal images of children at http://get-help.stopitnow.org.uk/
Are you interested in finding out more about how trauma experienced by children in their early years affects the brain? Then you may find it worth watching a video presentation on the subject by Dan Hughes, creator of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and Attachment-Focused Family Therapy. The full presentation ‘How Early Years Trauma Affects the Brain’ (53 minutes) is available on https://ddpnetwork.org/library/how-early-years-trauma-affects-the-brain/, alternatively there is a shorter (15 minutes) version on https://vimeo.com/153934150
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