The booklet, What to do if you're worried a child is being abused, is being sent to doctors' surgeries, schools and hospitals. It was produced in response to findings by Lord Laming during his inquiry into Victoria Climbie's death, in which children's services were discovered to be using out-of-date information from a wide range of sources.
The team behind the booklet looked at existing guidance, especially the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families, the Children Act 1989, and the Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance.
They developed flowcharts to illustrate the process.
The booklet is intended to be a user-friendly guide to provide advice for practitioners in the field and is being welcomed by youth-related organisations.
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