Keeping Children Safe - child protection practices across Scotland

Three publications covering a wide-range of guidance on child protection practices across Scotland - to help ensure stringent safeguards are maintained - have recently been published.

Information disclosure about child sexual offenders

The aim of community disclosure is to test the effectiveness of giving parents, carers or

guardians a more formal mechanism for requesting information about someone involved in their family life, specifically if they are concerned that the person might be a child sexual offender. 

Keeping Children Safe: Preventing abuse among young children and young people

This leaflet is for everyone involved in bringing up children. It explains that some children do indeed sexually abuse other children, how we can recognise the warning signs and the action we can take to prevent it. 

Keeping Children Safe: What we all need to know to protect our children

People who abuse children are often very skilled at building trust with the child and their parents or carers, and abuse may take place for years with no one being aware of it. Because children are rarely able to tell about abuse we, as adults, need to protect them. However, recognising the behaviour of people who sexually abuse children is not easy – either because we do not know what to look for or because our suspicions are so disturbing that we push them out of our minds.

Stop it Now! believes that we can all meet the challenge of recognising the signs of abuse before it happens and can take positive action to prevent it.