Child protection and safeguarding

Child protection plays a role in everything we do as child health professionals, and is about protecting individual children identified as suffering, or likely to suffer, significant harm as a result of abuse or neglect. Our main resource for members is our Child Protection Portal. View links from here, and to upcoming courses.
Family of adult and two children

Child Protection Portal - your essential resource

Our dedicated website provides essential and evidence-based resources to help inform clinical practice, child protection procedures and professional and expert opinion in the legal system.

Its Child Protection Companion and Physical signs of child sexual abuse (Purple Book) are only available to College members and subscribers.

 

Safeguarding competencies for health care staff

The 5th edition of the 'Intercollegiate Document' (ICD): Safeguarding children and young people and CYP in care: competencies for health care staff' is available on a dedicated website. It outlines the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed by all healthcare staff and volunteers who support children and young people, as well as senior managers and executives.