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The West Lothian Child Protection
Committee (WLCPC) is the key local
body for developing and implementing
child protection strategy across and
between relevant agencies. This is
broadly broken down into three key
areas:
1. Public Information
2. Continuous Improvement
3. Strategic Planning
How does the WLCPC fulfill these
functions?
The WLCPC has three sub committees
ensuring that all areas of work are
progressed, working to an annual
business plan -
see Annual
Report and Business Plan. |
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Each sub committee is chaired by a
member of the CPC and contains CPC
and non-CPC members. this does not
mean that the chairperson does all
the work associated with the sub
committee but that he or she takes
on the lead and ensures that
progress is made as required.
The sub committees are:
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Significant Case Review
- the SCR sub committee
ensures that significant
cases, e.g. where a
child has died, are
reviewed and any lessons
to be learned
are disseminated to all the
agencies.
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Practice and Training -
the P&T sub committee is
responsible for ensuring
that there is high
quality, multi-agency
training in place and
that good practice and
lessons to be learned
from local or national
inspections,
evaluations, reviews
etc. is disseminated to
practitioners
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Quality Assurance - the QA
sub committee takes the
lead in evaluating local
practice, protocols,
procedures etc. with a
view to continuous
improvement of services
to children and families
and outcomes for
children.
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WLCPC reports to a Chief Officers'
group who in turn link to ELBEG
(Edinburgh, Lothians & Borders
Executive Group) where the chief
executives of the five local
authorities (West Lothian, East
Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian and
Scottish Borders), NHS Lothian, NHS
Borders and Lothian and Borders
Police meet to identify and
commission inter-agency activity
with respect to protecting children
and young people. This group also
ensures that appropriate resources
are available and that issues of pan
Lothian and Borders significance are
progressed. |
