Child Protection Information Sharing
A solution to share a specified data set between children's social care and health unscheduled care settings in order to help protect children at risk
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Also known as
- CP-IS
- Reference code
- DCB1609 Amd 113/2018
- Publication date
- 02/07/2020
- Publication version
- 2.0.0
- Status
- Active
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Active. Active standards are stable, maintained and have been approved, assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
Deprecated Deprecated standards are available for use and are maintained, but are being phased out, so new functionality will not be added.
Retired standards Retired standards are not being maintained or supported and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Information standards
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.
Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
- Contact point
- Please quote CP-IS in the subject line.
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- Documentation
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- Applies to
- NHS urgent care services in England; Urgent care services commissioned by NHS England, encompassing:
- Emergency Departments
- Minor Injury Units
- Walk in Centres
- Maternity Units
- GP Out of Hours Services
- 111 Services
- Paediatric Wards
- Ambulance Services
- Children’s Social Care Departments of Local Authorities in England
- Impacts on
- Implementation of this information standard impacts all health IT systems suppliers providing systems to the above providers; suppliers should work with their customers to determine necessary changes.
- Associated medias
- Conformance date
- 31/10/2020
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Access to records
- Appointment / scheduling
- Child
- Data definitions and terminologies
- Security
- Care setting
- Community health
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Social care
- Urgent and Emergency Care
- Walk in centre
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
No known dependencies.
- Related standards
Review Information
- Scope
- NHS Services
- Sponsor
Martin Dennys, Programme Director, NHS Digital
- Senior Responsible Officer
Kenny Gibson, Head of Safeguarding, NHS England and NHS Improvement
- Business Lead
- Chris Elkington, Programme Manager, NHS Digital
- Approval date
- 30/06/2020
- Post Implementation review Date
- 01/06/2021
Legal basis and endorsements
- Legal authority
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Local Authority Children’s Social Care departments in England should also give consideration to the Children’s Act 1989.
More information
This will help improve decisions around children who are being abused and/or neglected. It is a national solution for England that also deals with the issues of migration of children across local boundaries. The messages shared between social care and health will lead to better outcomes for vulnerable children in society.
In order for child protection to be fully effective all Local Authorities and all NHS unscheduled care settings need to adopt, use and where possible integrate this standard into current processes and solutions.
About this change
This release, Version 2.0, introduces changes to improve the search functionality and Access to Service Notifications (ASN) alerts issued following treatment by 111 and GP Out of Hours services, including:
- an extension to the age range of CP-IS searches
- an amendment to the search criteria to allow inclusion of patients who have had their gender incorrectly recorded
- a revised set of requirements for 111 and Out of Hours providers, to ensure that appropriate information relating to the location and service accessed is included in the ASN alert to Local Authorities when children are treated by a 111 service.
In addition, there are several new requirements for health and social care and local authority organisations and minor changes to several other existing requirements.
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