Glossary

• Academies
• Adoption Order
• Adult with care and support needs
• Care Quality Commission
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• Child Death Overview Panel
• Child in need

  A ‘child in need’ is defined under the Children Act 1989 as a child who is unlikely to achieve or maintain a reasonable level of health or development, or whose health and development is likely to be significantly or further impaired, without the provision of services; or a child who is disabled. 

• Child Protection Conference
• Child Protection Plan
• Child sexual exploitation
• Clinical Commissioning Group
• Core Group
• CPS
• Domestic abuse
• Early help
• emergency protection order
• Emotional abuse
• Fabricated or induced illness
• Free Schools
• General Medical Council
• Grooming
• IRO
• LADO
• Lead social worker
• Looked After Child
• LSCB
• LSCP
• Medical assessment
• Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub
• Neglect
• NSPCC
• Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Ofsted
• Physical abuse
• Pre-birth assessment
• Section 47
• Serious case review
• Sexual abuse
• Significant harm
• Unexpected child death