Key points
The child protection chair must explain the following at the beginning of each conference:
The child protection register is a list of names of children who live in Guernsey and Alderney who are considered to be at risk and who are subject to a child protection plan. This child protection plan details how the child will be protected from serious harm and who is responsible for doing specific actions. It is a means of co-ordinating information and support. A child protection conference cannot make the decision to remove a child from the care of their parents or carers. The child protection conference can request a referral is made to the Children’s Covenor and/or that a legal threshold meeting to be called if a child is not able to be protected from serious harm through a child protection plan. The Islands Child Protection Committee monitors all children whose names are on the child protection register through the Monitoring and Evaluation Sub Committee.
The child’s name can be registered under one, or more, of the following:
How to do it
Functions of the Register:
To assist the identification and management of children who are considered to be at risk by pooling information and overseeing protection plans.
To provide statistical and research information to the agencies represented on Guernsey’s child protection committee on the incidence of child abuse.
Records
The Register contains limited information on a child and family. It includes the full names, including known other names, dates of birth and current and previous addresses of a child. Also, names of the general practitioner, social worker, other agencies involved and the dates of case conferences held on those children. In addition, it maintains a record of all enquiries in respect of a particular child or family.
All agencies records are held independently.
No child’s name can be placed on the Register without the knowledge of the parents. If a child’s name is placed on the Register, the parents must be informed in writing by the child protection chair.
Access to the Register
The Child Protection Register is kept up to date by the services for children and young people on behalf of the agencies represented on the Islands Child Protection Committee. Senior personnel of these agencies are entitled to access the Register.
Enquiries should be made to:
The Quality Assurance Manager
Services for Children and Young People
Perruque House
Rue de la Perruque
St Peter Port
GY5 7NT
Tel: 256923
Out of office hours the register is accessed through the out of hours duty social worker tel no: 701088
