Over the past 12 months the CPC have elicited views of the workforce through development sessions and a staff survey. When asked about ways we can improve or what can sometimes be a barrier, practitioners told us that the wanted to better understand the roles and responsibilities of people they were working with to support children and families.
To address this, the CPC will deliver and facilitate a series of Q&A webinars throughout 2025. The aim of the webinar is to support practitioners in understanding each other’s roles better, address any unrealistic expectations, and myth busting in relation to specific areas of practice/nature of concerns, and through the lens of significant harm. Each webinar will have a panel comprising of representatives from across the partnership and, where relevant, subject matter experts.
Each webinar will be an opportunity for the workforce to ask questions, to share the challenges that are faced, and understand what is compulsion or can/cannot be done by certain roles across the partnership.
Child Protection & Physical Abuse
4 March 2025
Risk of significant harm or significant harm as a result of physical abuse is the most common concern in referrals to Children’s Social Work yet is not a common reason for progressing through to Child Protection Registration. The webinar will also be an opportunity to discuss obligations, risk and proportionality around Equal Protection from Assault.
This webinar will provide a platform for a conversational exchange about our multi-agency response to physical abuse and equal protection from assault. It will not be a formal training session, but rather an opportunity to engage in respectful discussion and challenge existing ways of working.
The Panel
- Detective Inspector Ryan Morris – Police Scotland
- Dr Marianne Forrester - Consultant Paediatrician, Lead Paediatrician for Child Protection NHSG
- Angela Maitland – Children’s Social Work Service Manager
- Lisa Williams – Quality Improvement Officer, Education.
Who is the webinar for?
The webinar is intended for frontline workers such as, but not limited to:
Social Workers & Staff, Health Visitors, Pupil Support Assistants, Teachers, Early Years Staff, Head Teachers, Midwives, Social Workers in Training, Newly Qualified Social Workers, School, Nurses, Detective Constables, Detective Sergeant, Nursery Staff, Third Sector.
Aberdeen City’s CPC welcome any suggested topics for future Q&As, please email them to AmyAnderson@aberdeencity.gov.uk