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frequent. Significant harm may take place over an extended period of time or as a result of a specific incident. Forms of harm to children and young people that constitute child abuse are; physical injury, sexual abuse, physical neglect, emotional abuse and non organic failure to thrive. (b) The demonstrable significant harm or future risk of harm must be linked to the action or inaction of the parent or person with parental responsibility, care or control of the child or young person. 1.1 Specific Definitions and Categories of Abuse 1.1.1 The following definitions of abuse were developed by the then Scottish Office and should be read in conjunction with the general definition given above in paragraph 1.0.3. 1.1.2 Although these are presented as discrete definitions, it should be borne in mind that in practice there can be overlap and interaction between categories and child abuse as experienced by an individual child may not always fit neatly into one category. In such cases the category of registration should be determined by the nature of the significant harm that it is felt the child or young person requires protected from, rather than the kind of child abuse they may have already suffered. The category under which the child is registered can be changed at a Review Child Protection Case Conference as concerns change and knowledge of the family patterns and functioning increases. It should be noted that a child should be registered under only one category. 1.1.3 Once a decision is reached to register the child on the Child Protection Register the following categories should be used. 1.2 Physical Injury 1.2.1 “Actual or attempted physical injury to a child including the administration of toxic substances, where there is a definite knowledge or reasonable suspicion, that the injury was inflicted or knowingly not prevented”. 1.2.2 Physical injury may include a serious incident or a series of minor incidents involving bruising, fractures, scratches, burns or scalds, poisoning, attempted drowning or smothering, Mauchausen Syndrome by proxy, serious risk of or actual injuries resulting from parental lifestyle prior to birth, for instance substance abuse, physical chastisement deemed to be unreasonable. 10
1.3 Sexual Abuse 1.3.1 “Any child may be deemed to have been sexually abused when any person(s), by design or neglect, exploits the child, directly or indirectly, in any activity intended to lead to the sexual arousal or other forms of gratification of that person or any other person(s) including organised networks. This definition holds whether or not there has been genital contact and whether or not the child is said to have initiated the behaviour”. 1.3.2 Sexual abuse may include activities such as incest, rape, sodomy or intercourse with children; lewd or libidinous practices or behaviour towards children; or encouraging children to become prostitutes or witness intercourse or pornographic materials. 1.3.3 Activities involving sexual exploitation, particularly between young people may be indicated by the presence of one or more of the following characteristics – lack of consent; inequalities in terms of chronological age, development stage or size; actual or threatened coercion. 1.4 Physical Neglect 1.4.1 “This occurs when a child’s essential needs are not met and this is likely to cause impairment to physical health and development. Such needs include food, clothing, cleanliness, shelter and warmth. A lack of appropriate care results in persistent or severe exposure, through negligence, to circumstances which endanger the child”. 1.4.2 Physical neglect may also include a failure to secure appropriate medical treatment for the child, or when an adult carer persistently pursues or allows the child to follow a lifestyle inappropriate to the child’s development needs or which jeopardises the child’s health. 1.5 Emotional Abuse 1.5.1 “Failure to provide for the child’s basic emotional needs such as to have a severe effect on the behaviour and development of the child”. 1.5.2 This may include situations where as a result of persistent behaviour by the parent or care giver children are rejected, denigrated or scapegoated, engaged in play inappropriate to their stage of development or encouraged to engage in anti-social behaviour, put in a state of terror or extreme anxiety by the use of threats or practices designed to intimidate them, isolated from normal social experiences, preventing the child from forming friendships. 11
Page 1 and 2: CHILD PROTECTION PROCEDURES The Eas
Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS Foreword Section 1: Defini
Page 5 and 6: Section 5: The Child Protection Reg
Page 7 and 8: APPENDICES Appendix 1: The Main Tas
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Page 13 and 14: SECTION 2 Investigation of Suspecte
Page 15 and 16: Team Leader will liaise with the Se
Page 17 and 18: interviews by a Police Officer and
Page 19 and 20: e widely available to general pract
Page 21 and 22: 2.8 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Page 23 and 24: properly investigating them can als
Page 25 and 26: person with whom the child shares h
Page 27 and 28: (i) (j) (k) (l) Once a referral has
Page 29 and 30: for formal intervention in this par
Page 31 and 32: public interest to prosecute. It is
Page 33 and 34: (Article 19 of the UN Convention on
Page 35 and 36: made available. The criminal aspect
Page 37 and 38: 3.7 Convicted Offenders 3.7.1 A sep
Page 39 and 40: serious addiction by the parent who
Page 41 and 42: 3.12 Children with a disability or
Page 43 and 44: 3.14.1.3 Any such concerns should b
Page 45 and 46: 3.14.8 Deciding on How the Matter s
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3.15.7.35 Any involvement of a youn
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3.17.2.2 There are two important el
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3.17.4.2 Social workers must submit
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3.19 The Data Protection Act 3.20.1
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3.21.6.5. A child may have to give
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eport this to the Service Unit Mana
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of making this decision. It may wel
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4.6 Professionals and Others 4.6.1
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his or his wishes and feelings and
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4.13.1 Once a child’s name has be
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4.18 Key worker 4.18.1 A key worker
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Section 5 The Child Protection Regi
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5.7.1 There are two Child Protectio
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5.15 A Registered Child moving into
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SECTION 6 Informing and Consulting
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6.5.4 Family members will need to k
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• The procedure for making an app
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7.5 Information required for an app
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to any person or class of person sp
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7.12 Procedure for making an applic
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for recall or variation the Team Le
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7.16.3 The sheriff when considering
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notification for the application fo
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7.22.7 If an emergency authorisatio
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(e) (f) (g) (h) Having undertaken i
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procedures for application to a She
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Families) or equivalent. It will be
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there is significant concern for th
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8.7.8.5 The Team Leader will inform
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(o) Where there is disagreement abo
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It will be the responsibility of ea
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(b) (c) (d) (e) No explanation of t
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Abdominal Injuries In a few cases,
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• Unusual genital odour. • Anxi
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APPENDIX 3 Referral/Reporting Conta
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Glossary of Medical Terms and Condi
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Appendix 5 HIV and other blood-born
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APPENDIX 6 List of Sign Language In
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APPENDIX 8 East Ayrshire Council Ch
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Risk Assessment Risk Assessment is
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for each release in a planned progr
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Assessment and Supervision of Sex O
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• is over sixteen • is a convic
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Help To: The Director of Social Wor
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APPENDIX 11 EAST AYRSHIRE COUNCIL E
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