Recognition of risk and prevention in safeguarding of children and young people: a mapping review and component analysis of interventions aimed at health and social care professionals

Chambers, Duncan; Cantrell, Anna

doi:10.3310/hsdr-tr-130776

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“…Methods are reported in full in the technical report [1]. Briefly, the research was carried out in two stages.…”

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“…Only one study (two publications) [26,27] met our criteria for quality assessment. The study lacked a control group and responses to most assessment questions were 'no' or unclear, suggesting a high risk of bias (see Appendix 4 of the full report [1]).…”

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“…Our work also differs from most previous reviews in that it covers the whole range of health and social care settings. The full technical report [1] includes a review of reviews of international evidence on this topic, containing 27 relevant reviews. Many of the reviews deal with safeguarding awareness in specific roles (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most research performed in UK settings is of relatively low quality in terms of risk of bias. Higher-level overviews and policy documents produced by government departments, NHS bodies and other stakeholders were included in the full report but few of them included consideration of service development issues [1]. The limited evidence base around safeguarding girls and young women from female genital mutilation was identified as a research priority by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and was one of the factors underlying the commissioning of this research [1].…”

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“…This paper presents and analyses data from a broader mapping review of research evidence on interventions to promote child safeguarding awareness in health and social care settings [1]. For this review, we aimed to identify organisational interventions and initiatives aimed at health and social care professionals that extended beyond the provision of training.…”

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Recognition of risk and prevention in safeguarding of children and young people: a mapping review and component analysis of service development interventions aimed at health and social care professionals

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Cantrell

2021

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background The term ‘safeguarding’ covers the protection of health, wellbeing and human rights. Effective safeguarding enables people (particularly children, young adults and other vulnerable people) to live free from fear of abuse, harm or neglect. The UK Children Act 2004 required key agencies, including health and social care providers, to consider the need to safeguard children and promote their welfare. Within a larger evidence synthesis project, we sought to identify and map service development interventions (excluding provision of training) aimed at improving awareness of safeguarding and identifying at-risk children and young people in health and social care settings. Methods We searched fourteen health and social care databases from 2004 (date of Children Act) to October 2019 and updated the review via a citation search in March 2021. Studies of any design were eligible if they described or evaluated an intervention (other than training) aimed at health or social care professionals in the United Kingdom and designed to improve recognition of risk in the context of safeguarding children and young people. Studies with no intervention (e.g. qualitative studies) were included to explain why interventions work or fail to work. Included studies were summarised using narrative synthesis. Risk of bias of included studies and overall strength of evidence were assessed using standard methods. We used a 5-item checklist (“TIDieR-Lite”) to map intervention components. Results Thirty-nine publications were included, of which 31 dealt with service developments, six with use of data and two with other initiatives. Promising service development initiatives include liaison nurses, assessment clinics, secondment, joint protocols and a ‘hub and spoke’ model. Initiatives involving use of routine data appeared promising and unlikely to generate significant additional costs. However, the quality of the evidence was generally low, with a shortage of controlled and long-term studies. Conclusions Health and social care services wishing to improve awareness of child safeguarding issues may benefit from looking beyond high-quality training provision. Future research should focus on service-relevant outcomes and ensure the active involvement of young people and their families/carers.

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“…Methods are reported in full in the technical report [1]. Briefly, the research was carried out in two stages.…”

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Recognition of risk and prevention in safeguarding of children and young people: a mapping review and component analysis of service development interventions aimed at health and social care professionals

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2021

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Recognition of risk and prevention in safeguarding of children and young people: a mapping review and component analysis of interventions aimed at health and social care professionals

Abstract: is a member of the NIHR HS&DR Funding Committee and the NIHR Systematic Reviews Advisory Group, and Convenor of the Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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