When to suspect child maltreatment
| Date published: | July 2009 |
| State: | Published |
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Guidance produced by NCC-WCH for healthcare professionals on When to suspect child maltreatment, including physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect and fabricated or induced illness is now available from the above links.
This guidance provides a summary of clinical features associated with child maltreatment (alerting features) that may be observed when a child presents to healthcare professionals. Its purpose is to raise awareness and help healthcare professionals who are not specialists in child protection to identify children who may be being maltreated.
The alerting features in this guidance have been divided into two, according to the level of concern, with recommendations to either ‘consider’ or ‘suspect’ maltreatment. The guidance also provides a clear and concise process that healthcare professionals can follow when assessing a child or young person. The alerting features cover:
- physical, sexual and emotional abuse
- neglect
- fabricated or induced illness.
The guidance does not give healthcare professionals recommendations on how to diagnose, confirm or disprove child maltreatment.
For general enquires about this guideline please contact enquiries@ncc-wch.org.uk.
Page updated 10 August 2010