General practitioners (GPs) and primary healthcare teams are best placed to spot the early signs of child abuse and neglect. They have an overview of issues affecting individual members of a family which, in combination, may impact on a child’s welfare. They are also in a position to co-ordinate the work of different agencies supporting children and families.
Reasons case reviews were commissioned
This briefing is based on case reviews published between 2013 and August 2015 which have highlighted lessons for GPs and primary healthcare teams to improve safeguarding practice.
In these case reviews, children died or suffered serious harm in a number of different ways:
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