Child Protection Websites
Please find below some websites containing useful information on various related subjects:
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)
https://www.mygov.scot/working-jobs/finding-a-job/disclosure/ (Disclosure applications)
www.sccyp.org.uk/ (Scotland’s Commissioner for Children & Young People)
Child Protection Videos
Stop it Now!
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:
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- viewing / sharing a sexual image of someone under 18 is illegal
- the experience is extremely harmful to the children involved
- the consequences can be devastating
- there is help to stop
You can also view the Stop it Now! presentation for further info on illegal images of children at http://get-help.stopitnow.org.uk/
Cyberbullying – advice for victims
Children who Experience Trauma in Early Childhood – a presentation by Dan Hughes
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