Child protection: the interagency approach.
The issue of child abuse is seldom out of public attention. Cases of abuse, or suspected abuse, require the knowledge and skills of a variety of health, educational and law-enforcement professionals; while this diversity allows a tremendous range of flexibility in the response which can be made, it also raises problems of interagency communications. If these problems are not solved, the repercussions can be disastrous. The author, a health visitor closely involved in child monitoring, outlines the specific areas which give greatest difficulty in communication between professionals, and describes some methods of overcoming them.
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D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002651:Child Advocacy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D014754:Violence