Tameside SCB

What is Neglect?

Neglect is the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child’s health or development.  Neglect may also occur during pregnancy as a result of maternal substance abuse.  Once a child is born, neglect may involve a parent or carer failing to:

• provide adequate food, clothing and shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment)
• protect a child from physical and emotional harm or danger
• ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate care-givers)
• ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment

It may also include neglect of, or unresponsiveness to, a child’s basic emotional needs for love, security and stability.

Neglect - Practice Guidance

The TSCB has published Neglect - Practice Guidance

Other guidance on the subject of neglect can be found in the Safeguarding Library

Research resources can be accessed via the Learning Resources

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