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PROTECTING CHILDREN - A SHARED RESPONSIBIITY
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1. There may be cases where, in order to ensure a child's safety, the local authority, the police or another agency must act without parental consent or participation, and in limited circumstances, without the parents' knowledge.
2. The CPR is a register maintained by local authorities, of all children who are subject of an inter-agency child protection plan. Registration is an administrative system for alerting workers to the fact that there is sufficient professional concern about a child to warrant an inter-agency child protection plan, and ensures that the plans for these children are formally reviewed at least every 6 months.
3. Authorities should note that this publication is intended as the national guidance applying to all schools - the Department does not require or advise that education authorities produce separate local handbooks which only add to the burden of reading for staff and confusion for staff moving between authorities. What is required is a summary of local contact details for display and insertion with this guidance.
4. Better Behaviour - Better Learning: Report of the Discipline Task Group 5.16
5. In most instances this will be on the young person's nineteenth birthday, but for those young people whom the law treats as a child until they are eighteen, it will be on their 21 st birthday.
6. Blueprint for the Processing of Children's Hearing Cases', Inter-agency Code of Practice and National Standards, Second Edition 2001, Scottish Executive publication, January 2001
7. This material is drawn from the City of Edinburgh and the Lothians Child Protection Guidelines published November 2002, and included with their permission
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