{"id":992,"date":"2025-04-10T11:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/?page_id=992"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:44:47","slug":"child-protection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/child-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cAll staff working in education establishments, including early learning and childcare (ELC) settings, have a key role in the support and protection of children and young people. Day to day professional experience of, and relationships with, children is a fundamental protective factor. All staff must be aware of and must follow child protection procedures\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><em>National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland, Scottish Government, 2023<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><strong>GLASGOW TOOLS AND SUPPORTS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Management Circular 57<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Management Circular 57 provides overall direction to education staff where there are concerns that a child may be at risk of harm. \u00a0MC57 processes should be followed where there are any child protection or safeguarding concerns relating to a pupil who attends a Glasgow City Council education establishment or a Glasgow City Council Funded Provider.<\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2025\/04\/10111933\/MC57-Child-Protection-and-Safeguarding-2025.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MC57 Child Protection and Safeguarding &#8211; GCC- 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download appendices: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glasgowearlyyears\/uploads\/sites\/10037\/2022\/07\/27170823\/MC57-Appendices-Including-forms.pdf\">MC57 Appendices &#8211; Including forms<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Pastoral Notes Guidance<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Guidance and support to use Pastoral Notes is available to GCC settings.<\/p>\n<p>Access: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goglasgow.org.uk\/Pages\/View\/185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Early Years Pastoral Notes Guidance<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>NATIONAL DOCUMENTS AND POLICIES<\/h1>\n<p>Type\u00a0<strong>\u2018Protection\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0into the search function on right hand side of top row, to identify all relevant national documents and policies.<\/p>\n<p>*March 26 &#8211; there is a temporary fault with this function which we are working to fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll staff working in education establishments, including early learning and childcare (ELC) settings, have a key role in the support and protection of children and young people. Day to day professional experience of, and relationships with, children is a fundamental protective factor. All staff must be aware of and must follow child protection procedures\u201d. National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80222,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-992","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glasgowearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}