Version: 1.0.3 | Published: 1 Dec 2025 | Updated: 3 days ago
Child Protection Information Sharing
Dataset
Summary
Type:
Information standards
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
- General Practice (in hours)
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health services (CAMS) (all four tiers)
- Sexual Health: Sexual Assault Referral Centres
- Sexual Health: Termination of Pregnancy Services
- 0-19 Services: School Nursing and Health Visiting Services
- Community Paediatrics
- Dentistry
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.
Conformance Date:
30 September 2025
Topics:
- Access to records
- Appointment / scheduling
- Care
- Care records
- Child
- Data definitions and terminologies
- Health
- Key care information
- Security, Safety and Privacy
Care Settings:
- Ambulance (Urgent and Emergency Care)
- Community health
- Dentistry
- GP / Primary care
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Mental health
- Social care
- Urgent and Emergency Care
- Walk in centre
Alternate Name:
CP-IS
Documentation
Description:
The Child Protection – Information Sharing (CP-IS) programme is delivering a solution to share a specified data set between children’s social care and health unscheduled care settings.
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.
This release, Version 3.0, introduces changes to the Scope of providers who fall within the requirements of CP-IS and as such, are expected to comply with the accompany requirements and data specifications which accompany this ISN.
The release has also been reviewed to update ay typographical errors and make minor corrections to specifications.
Documentation Link:
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Origin
Name:
NHSE-SD Data Catalogue