Inter-agency Guidance
Inter-agency Guidance provides a reference point for professionals who work with children and young people who may be at risk of significant harm.
It sets out what is appropriate professional practice and the processes that should be followed in this work.Dundee's inter-agency guidance is in two parts, both of which can be downloaded from this page.
The first is an Overview of child protection issues and the roles of various professionals who are involved in the protection fo children and young people.
The second part is the detailed guidance.Although these documents can be downloaded and saved from this page, guidance will be updated on a regular basis.
NOTE: Professionals using this guidance should check back here on a regular basis to make sure they have the most up-to-date version.
Section 1 Interim Update - November 2009
The Hawthorn/Wilson Significant Case Review Report (August 2009) contained a number of recommendations relating to practice at the time when a concern is reaching the point at which professionals are beginning to consider invoking formal child protection procedures. In particular, the SCR report considered Initial Referral Discussions (IRDs) - When is an IRD necessary and who makes that decision; Who attends and IRD; What information needs to be shared at an IRD; What decisions it makes; What it does to ensure management and monitoring of subsequent action?
This document amends Section 1 of the CYPPC's Multi-agency Guidance to take account of those recommendations.
This is an interim update of Section 1. The outcomes of the work being carried out by other Task Groups working on the child protection improvement plan, may require further updates of this guidance. A full review of the multi-agency guidance will be completed by March 2010.
Click here for interim Section 1 Update.
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