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
• 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

  Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH) were developed to co-locate safeguarding agencies and their data into a secure assessment, research and referral unit for notifications of vulnerable children. This was in response to the inability of agencies, on occasions to effectively share information which has been the comment of numerous Serious Case Reviews and public enquiries.

  These hubs aim to identify unknown risk by building a full picture on the child of concern and their family. The hubs aim to provide better informed assessments of risk and promoting the welfare of children; improved early identification of need; and enhanced partnership strategic assessment and problem solving.

• Neglect
• NSPCC
• Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Ofsted
• Physical abuse
• Pre-birth assessment
• Section 47
• Serious case review
• Sexual abuse
• Significant harm
• Unexpected child death