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26 Child Protection and Welfare Practice Handbook These designated persons are responsible for: • receiving all notifications of child abuse; • taking decisions relating to the holding of child protection conferences; • promoting interagency cooperation on child protection and welfare; • promoting interprofessional and interprogramme cooperation on child protection and welfare; • overseeing staff training programmes; • negotiating service agreements with non-statutory service providers. HSE Designated Officers If you are employed by the HSE in the following list of grades/functions, you are a designated officer with explicit responsibilities in responding to child protection and welfare under the Protection for Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act 1998. If you receive a report from an external service, it is your responsibility to pass this on to the HSE Children and Family Services. Access Workers Inspectors of Children’s Residential Centres and Foster Care Services Advocacy Workers Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Care Assistants Nurses (all grades and services) Child Care Managers Occupational Therapists Social Care (all grades) Pre-School Services Officers Children First Implementation Officers Project Workers Children First Information and Advice Officers Psychologists Child-minder Coordinators Psychiatrists Community Welfare Officers Physiotherapists Counsellors in services for AVPA Public Health Nurses Coordinators of Disability Services Quality Assurance Officers – including Monitoring Officers for Children’s Residential Centres and Foster Care Services Environmental Health Officers Radiographers Family Support Coordinators Residential Child Care Managers/ Residential Child Care Workers Family Support Workers Substance Abuse Counsellors
Allied professionals and all others who work with children and their families Hospital Consultant Doctors Social Workers (all grades and services) HIV and AIDS Service Workers Speech and Language Therapists Health Education and Health Promotion Personnel HSE Dental and Medical Personnel Training and Development Officers As a HSE Designated Officer, you may receive reports of suspected abuse or you may have concerns about a child’s safety and welfare. It is your responsibility: • To ensure that you are fully conversant with your organisation’s statutory duties to the protection and welfare of children. • To ensure that you know your internal child protection and welfare policies and procedures, and that you know what they are and where to find the most up-to-date version. If a person, including third parties, reports suspected child abuse to you, your responsibility in the first instance is: • To inform that person that when they report to a person designated under the Protection for Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act 1998, they are protected in law from civil liability or penalisation by their employer, if the report is made reasonably and in good faith. A person who makes a report in good faith and in the child’s best interests to another appropriate person may also be protected under common law by the defence of qualified privilege. • To establish, in consultation with the individual who has raised the concern, if reasonable grounds for concern exist. • If you are unsure whether the concern constitutes reasonable grounds for concern, you may consult informally with the Children and Family Services’ Duty Social Worker (see Section 2.7). • Where you decide not to pass on the concern brought to your attention, you must inform the person of this and also tell them they may report directly to Children and Family Services and that the provisions of the Protection for Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act 1998 would pertain. • The information given to you should be forwarded to the Children and Family Services’ Duty Social Worker if reasonable grounds for concern exist, regardless of whether the source wishes to be identified or not. The source should be made aware that you will be reporting the information. 27
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