Protecting children

Children and Young People have a right to be protected and be safe from harm from others. Every adult in Scotland has a role in ensuring all our children live safely. Families, neighbours professionals and members of communities play a vital role in protecting children. Most children in our society grow up in a safe protected environment, but sadly the minority do not, and need extra help from adults to keep them safe.

The City of Edinburgh Council Children and Families Department, as part of their role in protecting children, have produced new leaflets giving public information for people worried about child protection issues, and giving children and young people simple information in a handy pocket sized leaflet which they can easily carry with them to refer to if they should ever need to do so.

Child Protection leaflets

• Information for people worried about child abuse or neglect (PDF, 767kB)
• Information for families involved in the Child Protection process (PDF, 850kB)
• Information for service providers (PDF, 77kB)
• Information for older children & teenagers (PDF, 218kB)
• Information for younger children (PDF, 551kB)
• Guidelines on protecting children in families with alcohol and drug problems (PDF, 205kB)

Translations are also available in Polish, Urdu, Mandarin, Arabic and Bengali.

Taking Care of Children

The Edinburgh Lothian and Borders Child Protection Office has produced the following leaflet giving basic information about the care and protection of children and young people in Scotland.

• Taking Care of Children (PDF, 3MB)
• Taking Care of Children - Polish version (PDF, 3MB)

Edinburgh Child Protection Committee

The committee's annual report for 2006-07 has been published, and can be downloaded below. All documents are in PDF format - download Adobe Reader

• Edinburgh Child Protection Committee annual report 2006-07 (PDF)

The Child Protection Committee annual report 2005-06 (PDF) and Annual report 2005-06 appendices (PDF) are also still available.

Child Protection Procedures

As of 1st June 2007, new Child Protection Procedures took effect.

Caleb Ness inquiry

The full report, and executive summary, of the Caleb Ness inquiry is also available online.

Child Safety Strategy

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) have published a Child Safety Strategy.