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Risk factors

Authoring team

These can be subdivided into characteristics of:

  • the child
  • the parent
  • the society

NICE suggest risk factors for child maltreatment

"...Examples include

  • parental or carer drug or alcohol misuse
  • parental or carer mental health problems
  • intra-familial violence or history of violent offending
  • previous child maltreatment in members of the family
  • known maltreatment of animals by the parent or carer
  • vulnerable and unsupported parents or carers
  • pre-existing disability in the child.."

Reference

  1. NICE. Child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s. Clinical guideline CG89. Published July 2009, last updated October 2017.
  2. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Child abuse and neglect. Oct 2017 [internet publication].

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