This guidance, produced in association with the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), is for all staff working with children under 5 years and covers the 5 injury priorities:
The guidance also covers fire and roads.
Each injury priority includes data for England, actions for health professionals and safety messages for parents and carers.
Latest edition of Working Together to Safeguard Children has just been published – the statutory guidance on inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. [Updated: Minor amendment to the guidance to add the definition of child sexual exploitation.]
This guidance is for:
It applies to:
We are delighted to share two new practice guidance documents around safeguarding with our members.
These documents can be found in the members-only A-Z Resource Library under Safeguarding and also the members-only Professional Guidance section.
This iHV practice guidance draws on the action plans that were generated by the participants of the iHV Safeguarding and Child Protection experts’ programme and outlines the top 20 messages for health visiting practice.
This practice guidance will help to support health visitors in the timely, appropriate and proportionate sharing of information in safeguarding children in line with legislation, government guidance and professional regulation. Good practice in information sharing is fundamental to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of, or suffering from, significant harm.
Please note that these guidance documents are available to iHV members only.
If you’re not a member, please join us to get access to all of our resources.
The iHV is a self-funding charity – we can only be successful in our mission to strengthen health visiting practice if the health visiting profession and its supporters join us on our journey. We rely on our membership to develop new resources for our members.
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The UK’s national food guide has been updated in light of recent recommendations made by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) in their report on Carbohydrates and Health published in July 2015.
The Eatwell Guide has replaced the eatwell plate and continues to define the government’s advice on a healthy balanced diet. The Eatwell Guide is a visual representation of how different foods and drinks can contribute towards a healthy balanced diet.
PHE Eatwell Guide
The Eatwell Guide is based on the 5 food groups and shows how much of what you eat should come from each food group.
Public Health England encourages organisations and individuals to use the Eatwell Guide to make sure everyone receives consistent messages about the balance of foods in a healthy diet. This publication provides guidance on using the Eatwell Guide in promotional materials.
The Institute of Health Visiting warmly welcomes the new commissioning and workforce development guidance on Specialist Health Visitors in Perinatal and Infant Mental health (PIMH) – What they do and why they matter, published today by Health Education England (HEE). It concludes that all women and their partners should have access to a specialist health visitor in perinatal and infant mental health (PIMH) and recommends at least one for every health visiting service.
Creating Specialist Health Visitor posts in PIMH within every health visiting service will play a valuable part in reducing the incidence and impact of postnatal depression and other perinatal mental health problems. This will be through earlier diagnosis, better intervention and support – creating savings on child and adult mental health services, and improved public health.
Dr Cheryll Adams, Executive Director of the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV), said:
“The iHV is delighted to endorse this new guidance which provides a framework for improvements in the services that health visitors can provide to families to promote their mental health.
“Through the health visiting ‘universal’ service, health visitors are well-placed to identify those families requiring additional support, especially where the mother (or indeed father) may be suffering from perinatal mental illness, or where the bond between parent and baby may be compromised. However, health visitors have many other roles and responsibilities taking their time during this important period of every child’s life and they would benefit from specialist support in this challenging arena.”
The framework sets out the important role of specialist health visitors in PIMH, illustrates the value to parents and other health professionals involved in a mother’s care and recommends that every woman should have access to a specialist Health Visitor as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
This multi-agency guidance on female genital mutilation (FGM) should be read and followed by all persons and bodies in England and Wales who are under statutory duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. It replaces female genital mutilation: guidelines to protect children and women (2014).
This guidance should be considered together with other relevant safeguarding guidance, including (but not limited to):
It is not intended to replace wider safeguarding guidance, but to provide additional advice on FGM.
This guidance has three key functions:
This guidance encourages agencies to cooperate and work together to protect and support those at risk of, or who have undergone, FGM.
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