Pregnant and parenting teens suffer higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) than older mothers. This qualitative metasynthesis explores teen mothers' experience with IPV during pregnancy and postpartum. Organized by the metaphor of a web, findings highlight how pervasive violence during childhood contributes to teen pregnancy and the risk of IPV as violence is normalized. The web constricts through the partner's control as violence emerges or worsens with pregnancy. Young mothers become increasingly isolated, and live with the physical and psychological consequences of IPV. Trauma-informed nursing practice is needed to support teen mothers in violent intimate relationships to spin a new web.

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Objectives: This review aims to describe the role of the school nurse in protecting children and young people from maltreatment by examining the international literature. Child maltreatment is a prevalent issue in global society today and includes physical, emotional and sexual abuse, neglect and exploitation. School nurses are ideally placed to identify and work with children and young people who are at risk of maltreatment through their regular contact with the school community. Design: Integrative literature review incorporating thematic analysis.

Aim To examine how school nurse practice evolved as a result of the Covid‐19 pandemic. Design A scoping review of international literature, conducted and reported in line with Arksey and O'Malley's (2005) framework. Data Sources Searches were conducted in September 2021. Ten databases were searched: The British Nursing Database, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Consumer Health Database, Health and Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health, Public Health, PsycINFO, PubMed and Web of Science. Relevant grey literature was identified through hand searching. Review Methods A minimum of three reviewers independently screened articles and two reviewers independently undertook data extraction, with any decisions made collaboratively with the wider team. Much of the literature was not empirical work and so it was not possible to apply a traditional quality appraisal framework. Results Searches identified 554 papers (after deduplication) which were screened against title and abstract. Following the full‐text review, 38 articles underwent data extraction and analysis. The review findings highlighted that school nurses adapted their practice to ensure they were able to continue providing their formal and informal school health offer to children, young people and their families and continued working closely with the multidisciplinary team. In addition, the expanded public health role generated by Covid‐19 for school nurses' work was considerable, multi‐layered and added to their routine workload. School nurses displayed resilience, adaptability and creativity in their response to delivering services during Covid‐19. Conclusion School nurses took on a leading public health role during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Some developments and practices were highlighted as beneficial to continue beyond the pandemic. However, formal evaluation is needed to identify which practices may merit integration into routine practice. Continued investment in staff and infrastructure will be essential to ensuring school nurses continue to expand their practice and influence as public health experts.

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This paper describes the design and development of the ERICA (Stopping Child Maltreatment through a Pan European Multiprofessional Training Programme: Early Child Protection Work with Families at Risk) training programme. ERICA project was funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Funding programme of the European Commission (European Commission 2019-2021), and has an overarching aim to develop, pilot and evaluate a Europe wide training programme in prevention, assessment, support and referral in relation to child maltreatment. It is a pan-European partnership with collaborators from Finland, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy and Poland. ERICA project proposes an integrated strategy to deal with child maltreatment risk and child maltreatment that consists of a multidisciplinary training across services and professional profiles, plus the design and promotion of a community engagement strategy, to build protective factors around families at risk and families suffering from child maltreatment.

To ensure that ethnic minority groups were receiving equality of treatment and service, Horton General Hospital in Banbury formed a multicultural consultation group. The group carried out a five-year plan to standardise health care for ethnic minority communities in Oxfordshire and to educate staff to enhance their cultural sensitivity.

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