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
- 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
This page is correct as printed on Sunday 17th of February 2019 09:34:00 PM please refer back to this website (http://westmidlands.procedures.org.uk) for updates.