0–18 years
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)
- The Common Assessment Framework for children & young people: Practitioners’ and managers’ guides (HM Government, 2007)
- Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for the Children’s Workforce (Children's Workforce Development Council, 2010)
- Consent, rights and choices in health care for children and young people (British Medical Association, (2016)
- 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)
- Children and young people ethics toolkit (British Medical Association,)
- 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: advice for safeguarding practitioners (HM Government, 2015)
- The law and ethics of male circumcision – Guidance for doctors (British Medical Association, 2006)
- Medical Research Involving Children (Medical Research Council, 2004)
- NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice (Department of Health, 2003)
- Safeguarding Children and Young People: Roles and Competences for Health Care Staff (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2014)
- Safeguarding Children (Welsh Assembly Government Website)
- Seeking Consent: Working with Children (Department of Health, 2001)
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations, 1989)
- What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused (Department for Education and Skills, 2006)
- Working together to safeguard children (Department for children, schools and families, 2015)
- You’re welcome quality criteria: making health services young people friendly (Department of Health, 2007)
