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Guide to health professionals and child protection in health
Author: Shauna McAllister, safeguarding consultant
Last Updated: 12 September 2012
Publication Date: 29 September 2010
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Introduction
Roles and responsibilities
Key roles in the multi-agency partnership
Health visitors
Midwives
School nurses
GPs
CAHMS workers
Adult mental health workers
Designated and named professionals
Designated Professionals
Named Professionals
Levels of child protection responsibility
Information sharing
Confidentiality in health services
Professional jargon
Accessing health information
Consent
Parental responsibility
Gillick competence
Alerting features of abuse
Alerting features of parent-child interactions
Alerting features of physical abuse
Alerting features of sexual abuse
Alerting features of emotional abuse
Alerting features of neglect
Special circumstances involving health
Children exhibiting harmful behaviour
Contraception and sexual health
Disabled children
Domestic violence
Fabricated or induced illness
Female genital mutilation
Parental mental illness
Substance misuse
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
References
Introduction
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