Child Protection Information Sharing
Summary
- NHS urgent care services in England; Urgent care services commissioned by NHS England, encompassing:
- Emergency Departments
- Minor Injury Units
- Walk in Centres
- Maternity Units
- GP Out of Hours Services
- 111 Services
- Paediatric Wards
- Ambulance Services
- Children’s Social Care Departments of Local Authorities in England
- Access to records
- Appointment / scheduling
- Child
- Data definitions and terminologies
- Security
- Community health
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Social care
- Urgent and Emergency Care
- Walk in centre
Documentation
This will help improve decisions around children who are being abused and/or neglected. It is a national solution for England that also deals with the issues of migration of children across local boundaries. The messages shared between social care and health will lead to better outcomes for vulnerable children in society.
In order for child protection to be fully effective all Local Authorities and all NHS unscheduled care settings need to adopt, use and where possible integrate this standard into current processes and solutions.
About this change
This release, Version 2.0, introduces changes to improve the search functionality and Access to Service Notifications (ASN) alerts issued following treatment by 111 and GP Out of Hours services, including:
- an extension to the age range of CP-IS searches
- an amendment to the search criteria to allow inclusion of patients who have had their gender incorrectly recorded
- a revised set of requirements for 111 and Out of Hours providers, to ensure that appropriate information relating to the location and service accessed is included in the ASN alert to Local Authorities when children are treated by a 111 service.
In addition, there are several new requirements for health and social care and local authority organisations and minor changes to several other existing requirements.