Child Safety and Wellbeing resources and publications

The Department of Health is committed to creating a culture that supports and empowers children and young people. We all need to ensure that we all uphold the rights of children and young people to feel safe, and be safe.

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• The Child Safety and Wellbeing Framework document presents the Department's approach to child safeguarding and improving how it delivers services to children and young people.
• The Child Safety and Wellbeing Framework Summary document presents a summary of the Department's approach (as articulated in the Child Safety and Wellbeing Framework) to child safeguarding and improving how it delivers services to children and young people.
• The Child Safety and Wellbeing Framework Summary - Easy Read document presents an easy-to-read version of the summary of the Department's approach (as articulated in the Child Safety and Wellbeing Framework) to child safeguarding and improving how it delivers services to children and young people.
• The Signed Statement of Commitment document outlines the commitment of the Health Executive to take action to improve how the Department provides services to children and young people.
• The National Principles - How do I contribute to child safety and wellbeing fact sheet outlines how workers in the Department can personally contribute to a child safe organisation under the Child Safety and Wellbeing Framework.
• The Practice Guidance - Recognising the signs of harm to children and young people document provides advice to support workers to recognise signs of harm to support the safeguarding of children and young people.
• The Practice Guidance - Discolours of harm to children and young people document provides advice to support workers who receive disclosures of harm experienced children and young people.