Safeguarding statement for NICE guidelines

In 2012 CPSIG  developed statements on safeguarding, to be submitted to NICE for all relevant consultations.

1.  Paragraph for the introduction to all NICE guidelines

Safeguarding children - remember to consider the following:

• Does the adult patient have child care responsibilities with which they need help?
• "Think child" i.e. is the patient's ability to care for children impaired by their illness?
• Does the patient have a condition or issues (e.g. mental health, substance and/or alcohol misuse, domestic violence, learning difficulty) that may impact upon their child?
• Would this patient/family benefit from other support or monitoring hence a referral to social care?

2. Paragraph for the introduction to NICE guidelines that are specifically about children

Safeguarding children - remember to consider the following:

• Child maltreatment is common
• It presents in hospital and primary care and all health settings e.g. Accident and Emergency, In- patient, Out-patients, dentist, at home visit by health visitor
•  Consider or suspect abuse as a contributory factor to or even a cause of the presentations described in these guidelines
• Abuse may coexist with any of the conditions described 
  

[The document can be downloaded as a PDF below.]