CONTENT

1. Working Together to Safeguard Children
• Statutory Guidance
• Principles
• Key Issues for Professionals

2. Involving Children and their Families
• Involving Children
• The importance of Partnership in Child Protection

3. Assessing Children in Need and their Families
• The Processes of Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Review

4. Children in Need of Protection – Making a Referral
• Unclear Situations
• Talking to Parents/Carers
• Reporting Concerns
• Enquiries to the Register

5. Children in Need of Protection – Reponse
• Immediate Protection
• Strategy Discussion
• Making Section 47 Enquiries
• Investigative (video) Interviews
• Medical Examinations
• Outcome of Section 47 Enquiries

6. The Child Protection Conference System
• Attendance at conference
• Quoracy
• Involving Family Members
• Participation of Children/Young People
• Structure of the Initial Conference
• Information for the Conference
• Chairing and Administration
• Child Protection Plan
• The Core Group
• Role of the Key Worker
• Pre-Birth Conferences
• Receiving In (also known as Transfer) Conferences
• Review Child Protection Conferences
• Reports to Review Conference
• Structure of the Review Conference
• Decision Making
• Child Protection Conferences where the child is looked after.

7. The Child Protection Register
• The Purpose of the Register
• Authorised Users
• Checking the Child Protection Register
• Changes to the Child Protection Register
• Child Moves into this county
• Children and Families Who Go Missing

8. Child Protection in Specific Circumstances
• Abuse of Disabled Children
• Organised and Complex Abuse
• Domestic Abuse
• Visits by Children to Specialist Hospitals
• Adults who present a risk to children
• Children and Young People who abuse (Including Sexual abuse)
• Children and Young People being discharged from hospital
• Protection Children and Young People who are being exploited through prostitution
• Female Genital Mutilation
• Child with/without carers arriving in North Yorkshire
• Fabricated or Induced Illness
• Child Abuse and the Internet
• Allegations against staff, Foster Carers and Volunteers who work with children and young people
• Children and Young People at Risk of Sexual Harm
• Substance Misusing Parents and Carers

9. Complaints and Commendations
• Complaints concerning individual agencies
• Complaints about a child protection conference
• Resolution of professional concerns and disputes
• Commendation Procedure

10. Serious Case Reviews
• Instigating a Case Review
• Timing
• Process
• Overview Report
• System for Evaluating Plans