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0-18 years: guidance for all doctors

Other sources of information and guidance

• Best Practice Guidance for Doctors and other Health Professionals on the provision of Advice and Treatment to Young People under 16 on Contraception, Sexual and Reproductive Health (Department of Health, 2004)
  
  
  
• Child protection companion (pdf) (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2006)
  
  
  
• The Common Assessment Framework for children & young people: Practitioners’ and managers’ guides (HM Government, 2006)
  
  
  
• Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for the Children’s Workforce (Department for Education and Skills, 2005)
  
  
  
• Consent, rights and choices in health care for children and young people (British Medical Association, 2001)
  
  
  
• Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association, 1964, as amended)
  
  
  
• Delivering a Healthy Future – An Action Framework for Children and Young People’s Health in Scotland (Scottish Executive, 2007)
  
  
  
• Doctors' responsibilities in child protection cases (British Medical Association, 2004)
  
  
• Getting it Right for Every Child (Scottish Executive, 2006)
  
  
  
• Guidelines for the ethical conduct of medical research involving children (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: Ethics Advisory Committee in Archives of Disease in Childhood, February 2000, Vol 82, No 2, p 177-182)
  
  
  
• Information sharing: Practitioners’ guide (HM Government, 2006)
  
  
  
• The Law and Ethics of Male Circumcision – Guidance for Doctors (British Medical Association, 2004)
  
  
  
• Medical Research Involving Children (Medical Research Council, 2004)
  
  
  
• National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services (Department of Health, 2004)
  
  
  
• National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services in Wales (Welsh Assembly Government, 2005)
  
  
  
• NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice (Department of Health, 2003)
  
  
  
• Safeguarding Children and Young People: Roles and Competences for Health Care Staff (pdf) (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2006)
  
  
  
• Safeguarding Children: Working Together under the Children Act 2004 (Welsh Assembly Government, 2007)
  
  
  
• Seeking Consent: Working with Children (Department of Health, 2001)
  
  
  
• Seeking Consent: Working with Children (Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, 2003)
  
  
  
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations, 1989)
  
  
  
• What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused (Department of Health, 2003)
  
  
  
• Working together to safeguard children (Department for Education and Skills, 2006)
  
  
  
• You’re welcome quality criteria: making health services young people friendly (Department of Health, 2007)