Child protection

Guidance and services

• Safeguarding children and young people from sexual exploitation
  Guidance for local authorities on how to prevent child sexual exploitation and protect children from abuse.
• Safeguarding guidance
  Guidance to help you follow the law on safeguarding people.
• Domestic abuse practice guidance for Cafcass Cymru practitioners
  Guidance to aid and assist Cafcass Cymru practitioners with cases that feature the domestic abuse of children.
• Guidance for Cafcass Cymru practitioners about children experiencing domestic abuse
  Information for Cafcass Cymru practitioners about how domestic abuse can impact children who have experienced it.
• Finding of fact hearings: practice guidance for Cafcass Cymru practitioners
  Practice guidance for Cafcass Cymru staff and fee paid practitioners when considering the best interests of children in relation to fact-finding.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill
  Collection
  How and why we are changing the law to stop the physical punishment of children.
• Intimate piercing: information for young people under 18
  Promotional material
  Advice for young people under 18 and their parents or guardians on the law on intimate piercing.