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Child Protection Companion - about

The Companion is your handbook on all forms of child abuse. It covers child protection processes across the whole range of medical and social interactions: from examination, to identification, to referral, to court.

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COVID-19 - guidance for planning paediatric staffing and rotas

This guidance aims to support those who are planning paediatric and neonatal staffing, rotas and services, and responds to the three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic to date, including the Omicron variant. We are aware that different services and regions will have varying requirements and hence we are...

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COVID-19 and paediatric training

Since March 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption to training and assessment in paediatrics in the UK as well as significant stresses to everyone's working and personal lives. We hope that, two years on, we are beginning to return to normal or at least to readjust to a new n...

COVID-19

Paediatric training

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Healthcare standards for children and young people in secure settings

There are about 1,000 children and young people placed in secure settings at any one time on justice or welfare grounds. This cohort of children often have complex needs that span mental health, neurodevelopmental need, substance misuse, and physical health, which can be hard to reach through tradit...

Looked after children

Service design

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Impact of COVID-19 on child health services tool

This project collects and reports data to support child health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked representatives, such as the paediatric clinical lead, to respond on behalf of their Trust or Health Board. The data were reported back regularly to support service planning, and be used as...

COVID-19

Service design

Workforce

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National guidance for the restoration and recovery of elective surgery in children

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cessation of all but the most urgent elective children’s surgical cases during the period of peak prevalence of infection in the general population. There is now a focus on addressing the huge backlog of procedures which have been delayed since the beginning of ...

Area of medicine

Surgery

COVID-19

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Paediatric training and redeployment during COVID-19 surges

The RCPCH recognises that redeployment of trainee paediatricians to adult services has been necessary through the earlier surges of this pandemic. As omicron causes a new surge, redeployment may become necessary again. The difference during winter 2021-22 is that paediatric services are themselves u...

COVID-19

Paediatric training

Workforce

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Rights to access healthcare for migrant and/or undocumented children

This guidance highlights the barriers that currently exist for certain migrant and/or undocumented children with regards to access to healthcare and attainment of a healthy life. This is in the context of recent increase in efforts to charge certain migrant and/or undocumented groups using NHS servi...

Wellbeing for children and young people

Safeguarding

Child protection

Refugee

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Safeguarding children and young people - roles and competencies

To protect children and young people from harm, and help improve their wellbeing, all healthcare staff must have the competencies to recognise child maltreatment, opportunities to improve childhood wellbeing and to take effective action as appropriate to their role.

Looked after children