The Child in Mind

Judy Barker has extensive experience working with child abuse and neglect. Her clinical expertise is drawn from many years in practice, as a health visitor, child protection advisor and designated nurse for child protection in City and Hackney. Deborah Hodes is a consultant community paediatrician and designated doctor for child protection in Camden and University College London Hospital. She has a wide range of clinical, teaching and research experience in community child health.

Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Safeguarding children 2 Partnership, collaboration and co-operation 3 Assessment of Risk 4 Physical abuse 5 Sexual abuse 6 Neglect 7 Emotional abuse 8 Failure to thrive 9 Abuse of children with disabilities 10 Parental non-engagement 11 The child protection conference 12 Records 13 The legal framework Appendix 1 : The assessment framework Appendix 2 : The paediatric assessment Suggested reading Index