Child Protection Information Sharing
A solution to share a specified data set between children's social care and health unscheduled care settings in order to help protect children at risk
Contents
- Documentation
About this standard
- Publisher
- NHS England
- Also known as
- CP-IS
- Reference code
- DAPB1609 Amd 33/2024
- Publication date
- 10 October 2024
- Publication version
- 3.0.0
- Status
- Active
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Active. Active standards are stable, maintained and have been approved, assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
Deprecated Deprecated standards are available for use and are maintained, but are being phased out, so new functionality will not be added.
Retired standards Retired standards are not being maintained or supported and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Information standards
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.
Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
- Contact point
- Please quote CP-IS in the subject line.
Using this standard
- 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 and care settings
- Topic
- Access to records
- Appointment / scheduling
- Care
- Care records
- Child
- Data definitions and terminologies
- Health
- Key care information
- Security
- Care setting
- Ambulance (Urgent and Emergency Care)
- Community health
- Dentistry
- GP / Primary care
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Mental health
- Social care
- Urgent and Emergency Care
- Walk in centre
Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
No known dependencies.
Review Information
- Scope
- NHS Services
- Sponsor
Martin Dennys, Programme Director, NHS England
- Senior Responsible Officer
Kenny Gibson, Head of Safeguarding, NHS England
- Business Lead
- Tracey Harrington, CP-IS Programme Manager, NHS England
- Approval date
- 23 July 2024
- Post Implementation review Date
- 30 March 2026
- Technical Committee
Data Alliance Partnership Board (DAPB)
Legal basis and endorsements
- Link to Information Standards Notice (ISN)
Information Standards Notices (ISNs) are published to announce new or changes to information standards published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
- Legal authority
Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Local Authority Children’s Social Care departments in England should also give consideration to the Children’s Act 1989.
More information
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.
Page last updated: 30 September 2025