MASH (Multi-agency safeguarding hub)
A local team where police, children's social care, health and others share information to decide quickly how to respond to concerns about a child.
- Stands for
- Multi-agency safeguarding hub
- Used in
- England
- Topic
- Safeguarding and child protection
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Related terms
- Early help England
- Support given as soon as a problem emerges for a child or family, at any point in childhood, to stop it getting worse.
- Section 47 enquiry England Wales
- An investigation by children's social care, under section 47 of the Children Act 1989, when there is reasonable cause to suspect a child is suffering or likely to suffer significant harm.
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