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Glasgow's vision

Glasgow’s children have a right to feel safe and be protected. In Glasgow, all services have a responsibility to ensure children are safe and their needs met. Services will work in partnership with children and their families and communities wherever possible to achieve this.

To achieve this vision we will work:

To ensure strategic leadership and ownership of activity in Glasgow to protect children and young people
To improve co-operation between agencies in Glasgow in their work to protect children
To enhance the development and delivery of services in Glasgow.

Most children grow up in homes where they are loved and well cared for. However sometimes a child may be harmed or mistreated in a way that is abusive. In such cases it is important that the child and his/her family receive help and support to ensure that the child is properly cared for and protected.

Glasgow Child Protection Committee (CPC) is the primary strategic planning mechanism for inter-agency child protection work in Glasgow. It is responsible for ensuring that agencies respond in a co-ordinated way to the identification of, response to, and prevention of, child abuse.

Glasgow Child Protection Committee meets every eight weeks and its activities are taken forward by the Child Protection Lead Officer, participating agencies, and a number of sub-groups and short-term working groups.

In this section you can find out more about the Committees:

Child Protection Awareness Clip

National Guidance on Child Protection Committees

Minute of Committee Meeting