Child Neglect in Scotland
Descriptions, Indicators and Impact of Neglect
Guidance
Guidance and Resources To Support Practice
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Multi Agency Neglect Audit
The learnings from the Multi Agency Neglect Audit are available via a 7 part briefing which can be found below. The audit findings showed that practitioners are positively identifying and responding to neglect. Areas for improvement were also identified, specifically looking at increasing confidence levels in naming neglect with families and recording the impact of cumulative neglect.
Useful Videos For Increasing Awareness + Understanding Of Neglect
If you wish to learn more about Neglect, watch the video below summarising our local training course which is available to all staff. You can sign up to future training courses here - Events | Aberdeen City Council
In the below webinar practitioners focus on working with families where neglect is a concern and services are struggling to engage with them. We hear from Neil Whettam, Public Protection Learning and Development Advisor at Clackmannanshire and Stirling Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP), and Shumela Ahmed, Managing Director at Resilience Learning Partnership, to learn about an approach and tool - the Trauma Ready Reckoner tool - that has been developed by Clackmannanshire and Stirling HSCP. Together, they help practitioners to understand the role that trauma might be playing in preventing more positive working and engagement with families to help address neglect:
The 'Brain Builders' video below explains how experiences in the first years of our lives affect how our brains form. Science tells us that the stress of abuse or neglect can damage the basic structures of a child’s developing brain. Without the right help, it can put them at risk of a lifetime of health problems and developmental issues.
The below video entitled Rethinking 'Did Not Attend' is a powerful reminder that children do not take themselves to appointments; they have to be taken by parents or carers. The animation therefore encourages practitioners to reflect on the impact that missed appointments have on a child’s wellbeing.
Below are a number of videos which share real life stories of childhood neglect.