Safeguarding

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Recipes for Engagement - children and young people in the lead - RCPCH &Us

Are you a child health worker? We want to make it easy for you to find out what those using your services think. With a cooking theme, our easy-to-read guide gives tested ideas on practically and creatively engaging children and young people.

Rare disease

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

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Understanding parents' information needs and experiences about non-accidental injury - research report

The responsibilities of paediatricians in relation to the recognition of child abuse place them in difficult diagnostic situations which require a sensitive approach. This research set out to explore parents' experiences of situations where concerns of non-accidental injury (NAI) were raised, with a...

Research

Safeguarding

News

Abolish solitary confinement for children and young people

18 April 2018

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has called on the Government to take immediate steps to end the solitary confinement of children and young people in the youth justice system.

News

Seeing shocking deprivation will stay with me forever: how I started working in child protection

4 April 2018

Gayle Hann, consultant paediatrician and named doctor for child protection, explains her journey to working in safeguarding.

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Our responses to health policy consultations 2018

Our response to a wide range of health policy consultations ensures that the College's position, and ultimately children's health, is represented. Here, you can browse our responses to health policy consultations for the current year.

Wellbeing for children and young people

Safeguarding

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Chatterbox game on five ways of healthy wellbeing

Based on the classic children's game, this game provides ‘Facts vs Myths’ surrounding the subject of mental health, which can enable a teacher/healthcare professional to facilitate a discussion regarding this issue.

Engaging children and young people

Children and young people's voice

RCPCH &Us

Wellbeing for children and young people

Safeguarding

Committee

Child Protection Standing Committee

This committee is responsible for championing the safeguarding agenda for children and young people. It advises on matters relating to child protection – preventing violence, exploitation and abuse against children.

Resource

Female genital mutilation - online learning

Our Female Genital Mutilation programme (e-FGM) is made up of five 20 to 30 minute eLearning sessions, designed to improve the knowledge and awareness among healthcare professionals of the impact that FGM has on women and children.

Safeguarding

FGM

Topic page

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 h...

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Invited reviews: the first four years - evaluation 2012-2016

The RCPCH Invited Reviews service has been running since mid-2012 and has completed over 70 reviews. This report outlines the learning and findings from the first 60 reviews. It gives clinicians, managers and commissioners some ideas for 'quick wins' to improve their service or where help may be u...

Networks for health services

Service planning

Workforce