Child protection

Guidance and services

• Safeguarding: guidance for organisations
  Guidance to help organisations follow the law on safeguarding and protecting the welfare of 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.
• Handling child protection cases across borders
  Guidance for health boards and NHS trusts on how to work with other countries to protect children.

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

• Preventing and responding to child sexual abuse: national action plan
  Policy and strategy
  What we will do to keep children safe from sexual abuse and to support abused children.
• 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.