Child Protection Committee Newsletter Issue 4 Published

The Aberdeenshire Child Protection Committee has published Issue 4 of its quarterly newsletter, providing a transparent and accessible overview of the Committee’s work and priorities for the multi-agency workforce.

The CPC Newsletter is an important way of ensuring practitioners across social work, health, education, police and the third sector can see and understand the work of the Committee. By sharing updates following each CPC business meeting, the newsletter supports openness, shared understanding and confidence in local child protection arrangements. It helps practitioners understand how learning is identified, how improvement activity is agreed and how strategic oversight connects to day to day practice.

Issue 4 brings together updates from CPC subgroups, learning from audits and reviews, developments in guidance and training, and progress across key areas of improvement. By making this work visible, the newsletter supports consistent practice, strengthens multi agency working and reinforces the shared responsibility for keeping children safe in Aberdeenshire.

Highlights from Issue 4

Key highlights from this edition of the newsletter include:

• Adoption of the Criminal Exploitation Framework for Practice, providing a shared multi agency approach that reinforces safeguarding and ensures children who are criminally exploited are protected rather than criminalised
• Ongoing lived experience sessions within Aberdeenshire academies, with a strong focus on criminally exploited children and young people, supporting awareness, prevention and early intervention
• Launch of the Child Protection Committee and Bairns’ Hoose website, bringing together guidance, learning, resources and public information in one accessible place
• Publication of the Aberdeenshire Child Protection Committee Annual Report 2024 to 2025, setting out progress, learning and priorities for continuous improvement
• Delivery of the Aberdeenshire Child Protection Committee and Bairns’ Hoose Collaborative Learning Day, bringing together practitioners from across agencies for shared learning, reflection and strengthening practice

The CPC Newsletter is issued quarterly and is designed to support a confident, informed and connected workforce. Issue 4 is now available and can be accessed within the Child Protection section of the Aberdeenshire Child Protection website, alongside wider learning, guidance and resources.