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Children and young people seeking asylum and refugees - guidance for paediatricians

The aim of this guidance is to support paediatricians in the assessment and care of children and young people seeking asylum and refugees, both when accompanied by parents and carers and when unaccompanied. This guidance was updated in January 2025. This guidance can also be used when caring for ...

Safeguarding

Refugee

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UK-WHO growth charts - guidance for health professionals

The UK-WHO growth charts provide a description of optimal growth for healthy, breastfed children. Anyone who measures a child, plots or interprets charts should be suitably trained, or be supervised by someone qualified to do so. Here are some resources for healthcare professionals about the charts ...

Growth charts

Infant health

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Growth charts - information for parents and carers

Your child's growth is an important indicator of his or her health. The UK-WHO growth charts allow health professionals to plot and measure your child's growth from birth. Read about these below, and download our factsheets for more detail.

Growth charts

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UK-WHO growth charts - Down Syndrome, 0-18 years

The 2011 growth charts are jointly badged by RCPCH and DSMIG and are representative of healthy children with Down Syndrome living in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Growth can be charted from term to 18 years.

Neurodisability

Learning disability or learning difficulty

Growth charts

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UK-WHO growth charts - 2-18 years

This chart is mainly intended to assess the growth of school age children and young people in primary or secondary care. It includes guidance on the onset and progression of puberty, a BMI centile lookup, an adult height predictor and a mid parental height comparator.

Growth charts

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UK-WHO growth charts - childhood and puberty close monitoring (CPCM)

Published in June 2013, this is a modification of the main school age chart for use in children with growth or nutritional problems and will be ideal for use in specialist clinics and special schools.

Growth charts

Adolescent health

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UK-WHO growth charts - neonatal and infant close monitoring (NICM)

This chart is designed for plotting very preterm infants and those with significant early health problems such as weight faltering form 23 weeks gestation to 2 years corrected age. It was formerly called the Low Birth Weight chart.

Neonatal medicine

Growth charts

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How to write a children and young people's engagement plan - RCPCH &Us

This how to guide has been created to support your thinking around engagement and capturing the voice of children, young people and families to help shape health policy and practice.

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Quality improvement

Service design

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Revalidation - guidance for appraisers of RCPCH clinical examiners retired from medical practice

Appraisers of RCPCH examiners can find guidance here on what they can expect during an effective appraisal meeting. It will help examiners and their appraisers structure the supporting information and the appraisal discussion in a way that allows a proper evaluation of a doctor’s learning since the ...

Examinations

Revalidation

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Career development for paediatricians

The ‘Facing the Future’ and ‘Shape of Training’ reports highlight how the way paediatricians work is changing. In the past, paediatricians were expected to do virtually the same job throughout their careers. Paediatricians are now expected to work differently as their careers progress. Many will cha...

Paediatric careers