This article outlines how a health visiting service and a local education authority early years service in Hackney, east London, worked in partnership to improve the uptake of the Healthy Child Programme 2–2.5-year development review (Department of Health, 2009).

Safeguarding children is challenging and emotionally draining, so safeguarding supervision needs to be built into daily practice. This article comes with a handout for a journal club discussion

Marcia Smikle looks at the skills and qualities health visitors have or require, with some useful tips from health visitors at varying stages of their leadership journey

Marcia Smikle discusses four safeguarding roles in which health visitors and nurses work with other agencies to keep children safe from harm.

One in four women and one in six men experience domestic abuse, and 100 women and 30 men die as a result of domestic abuse in England each year. In addition, 140,000 children live in homes where there is high-risk domestic abuse, with62% being directly harmed by the perpetrator.