16th February 2018
Rapid review to update the safeguarding guidance for the Healthy Child Programme for children aged 5 to 19.
The Healthy Child Programme sets out the recommended framework of universal and progressive services for children and young people in England to promote their health and wellbeing.
The purpose of this rapid review is to update the evidence regarding safeguarding guidance, focusing on prevention and early intervention.
The review looks at relevant systematic review level evidence, supplemented with some primary impact evaluations in the areas of preventing or intervening early with:
- child abuse and neglect
- child sexual abuse and exploitation
- intimate partner violence
- female genital mutilation
- gang violence
