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Background and purpose — Physical abuse of children, i.e., nonaccidental injury (NAI) including abusive head trauma (AHT) is experienced by up to 20% of children; however, only 0.1% are diagnosed. Healthcare professionals issue less than 20% of all reports suspecting NAI to the responsible authorities. Insufficient knowledge concerning NAI may partly explain this low percentage. The risk of NAI is heightened during health and socioeconomic crises such as COVID-19 and thus demands increased awareness. This review provides an overview and educational material on NAI and its clinical…
Introduction
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, over the next few months, all of us will be practicing social distancing or will have to self-isolate. This will lead to significantly reduced physical interactions with people we love and care about.
The importance of your child’s welfare must take priority over everything during this crisis. You may be worried about your child and desperately missing visiting them but you, your child, their carer, social workers, and other family members must follow government Coronavirus guidance on staying at home and social distancing.
Maintaining…
This comment from the Lancet explores the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on children in temporary accommodation in the UK and calls on the UK government "to take necessary steps and work collaboratively with all sectors, health services, and the housing sector (eg, possibly use hotels with space availability due to no incoming tourists) to reduce overcrowding and transmission of COVID-19 to protect some of the most vulnerable in our society."
This guidance is for Chief Officers, professional leaders in children’s services and child protection committees, who should ensure it is taken account of within local partnerships.
It supplements the existing national guidance for child protection in Scotland, and should be read alongside other COVID-19 guidance. It will be kept under review and updated as the pandemic develops.
This advice is to help adults with caring responsibilities look after the mental health and wellbeing of children or young people, including those with additional needs and disabilities, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
For wider information on how to protect yourself and others please see Coronavirus (COVID-19): what you need to do
This guidance will be updated in line with the changing situation.
This guidance from the UK Department for Education and the Department for Public Health England answers some key questions regarding meeting the needs of vulnerable children during the COVID-19 crisis, including children in care and children with a child protection plan.
Scope of the guidance
This guidance is to support those working in social or community care and residential settings to give advice to their staff and users of their services about COVID-19. Social or community and residential care is taken to include:
- long-term conditions services
- prison residential settings
- rehabilitation settings
- community healthcare settings
- community-based settings for people with mental health needs
- community-based settings for people with a learning disability
- community social care (…
This guidance is to support the management of children and young people living in:
- children’s homes
- residential special schools and colleges
- other further education (FE) providers with residential accommodation
- mainstream boarding schools
- university halls of residence.
This brief article from the Lancet reviews the UK's response to the needs of people living in homelessness during the COVID-19 crisis.
Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, over the next few months, all of us will be practicing social distancing or will have to self-isolate. This will lead to significantly reduced physical interactions with people we love and care about.
The importance of your child’s welfare must take priority over everything during this crisis. You may be worried about your child and desperately missing visiting them but you, your child, their carer, social workers, and other family members must follow government Coronavirus guidance on staying at home and social distancing.
Maintaining social networks is…