Safeguarding children via connectivity

Accredited by NHS Digital, InterSystems has been working with NHS Trusts to enable streamlined adoption of Child Protection Information Sharing. With urgency being placed on faster and wider uptake, pioneer sites could offer lessons for national acceleration, helping frontline staff across the country safeguard children.

For any health or social care professional, safeguarding vulnerable children in their care is one of the highest priorities. Providing staff with information to easily identify when a child they are treating may be at risk of abuse, has consequently become a paramount objective. 

Responding to concerns raised in tragic child abuse cases, and to findings from the Report of the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum,1 ministers first announced the Child Protection Information Sharing (CP-IS) system in late 2012.