Integrated Children’s Services Planning and GIRFEC Implementation Seminar

Help shape Dundee’s new Integrated Children’s Services Plan and set out  how we will implement Dundee’s Getting It Right For Every Child Programme

Latest Child Protection Self Evaluation Report February 2012

Click here for Child Protection Self Evaluation Report

Dundee Adult Support and Protection Committee

http://www.dundeeprotectsadults.co.uk/

Dundee Childcare and Protection Committee

http://www.dundeeprotects.co.uk/

Dundee Community Planning Partnership 

http://www.dundeepartnership.co.uk/content/community-planning

Child and Adult Protection News 

"The Little Things" is travelling around Dundee. The play was commissioned to promote protecting people services and to encourage people to get involved and report their concerns.

Click here for further information

Subject: Briefing Document for MASH Operational Procedures

Please find attached a short briefing document for staff across all agencies. This provides key information about the MASH and the new procedures for staff across agencies who require to contact and / or refer to the hub. Please ensure that this document is cascaded as appropriate within your agency. Copies can also be accessed online at

http://www.everybodysjob.co.uk/documents/19MASHProceduresBriefREFERRERS.pdf 

If the link is blocked by your firewall or you can't access it for any reason, you can try going through the website website:

www.everybodysjob.co.uk <http://www.everybodysjob.co.uk/>  then clicking on People Working with Young People and Families / Procedures Guidance and Protocols (the menu on the left handside) / Local procedures and guidance and it is the second document from the top. 

Kathryn Sharp

Chair, Multi-Agency Screening Hub Steering Group  

 Click here for CHIEF OFFICER GROUP (CARE & PROTECTION) Briefing (issue 7)

 Click here for CHIEF OFFICER GROUP (CARE & PROTECTION) Briefing (issue 6)  

Click here for a copy of the new CP Interagency Guidance issued by Dundee Children and Young Persons Protection Committee.

Joint inspection of services to protect children and young people in the Dundee City Council area.Click here for copy of the report 

Voluntary Sector Response to Dundee’s HMIe Child Protection Inspection Report. Click here for statement  

Cyberbullying Information Click Here    

PVG UPDATE 

Click here to obtain updated information on the Scheme

Click here for link to training and learning resource on Disclosure Scotland website on the PVG Scheme

24th of February 2011 - New PVG Scheme Application Forms  
Customers are advised that the new PVG Scheme Application Forms are NOT being automatically distributed to organisations, but are being issued on request via the Helpline.  Please also be aware that during the first year of operation of the Scheme, it should be used for workers joining the regulated workforce for the first time, and to those moving between jobs within regulated work.  Retrospective checking of the existing workforce is planned to commence in March 2012.  Information on this is currently been issued to a number of the organisations that are the most frequent users our services.

Important Information - Price Increase
Please be advised that the fee for all Police Act Disclosure applications will increase from £23 to £25 on 28 February 2011 when the new PVG Scheme goes 'live'.
As a result all Police Act applications received by Disclosure Scotland on or after the 28th of February 2011 will be charged at £25. 
Applications received prior to 28 February 2011 that are incorrectly completed, or require further information and that are returned to you and resubmitted arriving on or after 28 February 2011 will be charged at £25.  Any applications received with a cheque or postal order with the incorrect amount will be returned.  Invoices will reflect the new costs on your March Statements for applications received as per the arrangements mentioned above.
Online Basic applications made from 28 February 2011 will be charged at £25.
Those organisations who use the B2B method will from 28 February 2011 will be charged at £25