Courses on neglect are available through the Barking and Dagenham Safeguarding Children Partnership. Details can be found on our Multi-Agency Training Programme page.

Other resources

Working with families where there is neglect

Adolescents and neglect

Understanding Adolescent Neglect: Troubled Teens

How a child's brain develops through early experiences, and how neglect affects this

The impacts of overloaded parents

Poverty and neglect

Neglect and a young person’s mental health

The following Department for Education videos give insight to how children and young people may experience neglect

The Department of Education videos outline how being neglected as a child can impact people as adults and parents themselves

Other useful tools

Shared understanding of the risks and impact of child neglect is achieved by shared use of tools, joined up procedures and robust understanding of pathways and interventions. Other tools and guidance that professionals may need to use include:

• The NSPCC’s Graded Care Profile 2 (GCP2), including local supplementary GCP2 guidance
• The LBBD Domestic Abuse Practitioner’s Guidance
• The DASH RIC and DARAC domestic abuse risk assessment tools
• The Safe and Together Approach
• Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) signs and indicators toolkits
• Brook sexual behaviours traffic light tool
• Barnardo’s CSE Risk Matrix
• Youth At Risk Matrix
• Child Criminal Exploitation Tool