Child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s

Supporting evidence

• Evidence review

• Evidence - December 2025

• Report A: formal consensus exercise to define ‘independently mobile’ (PDF 321 KB)

  Published:

  03 December 2025

• Technical appendices to report A (PDF 173 KB)

  Published:

  03 December 2025

• Formal consensus methods (PDF 422 KB)

  Published:

  03 December 2025

• Surveillance report

• 2024 exceptional surveillance of child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s (NICE guideline CG89)

• Appendix A: Equality and health inequalities assessment template (PDF 202 KB)

  Published:

  24 January 2024

• 2019 surveillance of child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s (NICE guideline CG89)

• Appendix A: Stakeholder consultation comments table (PDF 730 KB)

  Published:

  06 March 2019

• Full guidance

• Evidence tables (PDF 798 KB)

  Published:

  09 October 2017

• Search strategies (PDF 1.09 MB)

  Published:

  09 October 2017

• Excluded studies (PDF 827 KB)

  Published:

  09 October 2017

• Full guideline (PDF 1.87 MB)

  Published:

  09 October 2017