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Child abuse general guidance
Child safeguarding guidance. Includes multi-agency working, child protection plans and NHS support.
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Information and research
Useful resources for professionals:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence, a government-funded organisation promoting good practice in social care
- Social Care Online has the UK's most extensive range of information and research on social care
- NSPCC for information on safeguarding children and parenting for parents, young people and professionals
- Ofted publishes inspection reports on children's services
- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has child health information with useful links
- The King's Fund is a library aimed at health workers in London
- Royal College of Psychiatrists for useful leaflets on child and adult mental health issues
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation regularly publishes articles and research on poverty and childcare issues
- Thomas Coram Research Unit for children's services research
- Research in Practice produces regular research and policy updates
Our Health and Social Care team subscribe to some resources on behalf of statutory and voluntary services working with children in Southwark.
[Get in touch](xxxxxxxadd link)) with details of where you work and the kind of work you do, to access resources like:
- ChildData, the database of the National Children's Bureau
- CASPAR News (Current Awareness Service for Practice Policy and Research), the bulletin for NSPCC Inform.
- Making Research Count which organises regular seminars on recent research findings
- the National Children's Bureau Library