Recent analysis by the NSPCC showed how children's professionals in universal services were referring many cases of child neglect to social services that could be better managed with early help.
The research suggested education, health, police and early years practitioners were too readily referring suspected cases of child neglect because they lacked knowledge on the issue, as well as the confidence to intervene themselves.
A guide produced by a group of charities and safeguarding agencies and published last week aims to address that professional deficiency by clearly setting out what the different forms of neglect are (see box), how prevalent the problem is, the common warning signs of it and how professionals should respond.
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