Inter-Agency Child Protection
Child Protection Inter-Agency Guidelines
All children and young people have a right to be protected from harm and every agency involved with working with children has a fundamental dury of care towards them. An inter-agency approach is essential to the effective management of child protection.
Inter-Agency Child Protection Training
Within Forth Valley there is an inter-agency training facilitator responsible for our inter-agency training programme. This enables all agencies to train together and the programme is developed within the National training framework (attached) of the Scottish Government.
This framework comprises of four levels of training and is also available for all partner agencies. The current training programme in respect of inter-agency child protection training is attached. More information in respect of specific courses is available from the agency contacts detailed within.
The police and social work services have a joint training plan which follows the National JIIT (Joint Investigative Interview Training) programme. This is comprehensive training that is mandatory for police and social work staff who interview children and young people as part of a child protection investigation.
In addition to this, Central Scotland Police run their own Level 1 basic awareness child protection training courses, which means that there are regular training opportunities available for all staff who offer services to children and young people or come into contact with children and young people as part of their work within the Central Scotland Police area.
