Healthcare: Learning from case reviews is essential reading for teachers of Health & Social Care. It documents learning points from serious safeguarding case reviews involving children, families and healthcare professionals. It can be used to enhance your own subject knowledge, and to inform lesson content and case studies to use in the classroom.

Health professionals play a key role in recognising and responding to safeguarding concerns. However, the case reviews presented in this document from the NSPCC reveal challenges in identifying when a child’s health issue may signal a safeguarding concern.

Key learning for health professionals includes:

• Considering potential safeguarding concerns alongside medical issues.

• Following organisational safeguarding procedures to protect children.

• Collaborating with other health and non-health professionals to share critical information about a child’s condition and care needs.

I recommend that all teachers of Health & Social Care sign up for the NSPCC’s CASPAR Briefings, which are designed to help people working or volunteering with children and young people understand changes to safeguarding and child protection policy and guidance.