Child neglect has devastating enduring consequences for children and its identification and assessment remains challenging for practitioners. In England, assessment tools and standardised measures have been incorporated in welfare and safeguarding practice to help practitioners' critical observation and analysis and improve their assessments of risk. However, the picture regarding child neglect assessment practice trends on the ground remains unknown. This mapping exercise aimed to, firstly, provide an overview of the approaches to neglect practice and neglect assessment tools promoted by Local Safeguarding Children Partnerships (LSCPs) across England, and secondly, provide a brief examination of the types of tools advocated. An email survey was sent to the safeguarding leads or chairs of LSCPs in England (n = 121). Forty-two valid responses were received (34.7%). Almost all participating LSCPs had a Neglect Strategy in place and recommended the use of tools and chronologies when working with neglect. Eighteen individual neglect tools were reported with only two of these having undergone psychometric testing. The findings affirm that the use of tools or instruments with low or no testing for psychometric properties continues to be widespread in children's social care and welfare practice in England. Implications and recommendations for practice, policy and future research are discussed.

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绘制英格兰儿童忽视评估实践和工具使用的地方政策方法

儿童忽视对儿童造成了毁灭性的持久后果，其识别和评估对从业者来说仍然具有挑战性。在英国，评估工具和标准化措施已被纳入福利和保障实践中，以帮助从业者进行批判性观察和分析，并改进他们的风险评估。然而，有关儿童忽视评估实践趋势的实际情况仍然未知。这项绘图工作的目的首先是概述英格兰地方保护儿童伙伴关系 (LSCP) 所推广的忽视实践方法和忽视评估工具，其次简要审查所倡导的工具类型。我们向英国 LSCP 的维护领导或主席发送了一份电子邮件调查（n  = 121）。收到有效回复 42 份（34.7%）。几乎所有参与的 LSCP 都制定了忽视策略，并建议在处理忽视问题时使用工具和时间顺序。据报道，有十八种个人忽视工具，其中只有两种经过了心理测试。研究结果证实，在英格兰的儿童社会关怀和福利实践中，使用心理测量特性测试较低或没有测试的工具或仪器仍然普遍存在。讨论了对实践、政策和未来研究的影响和建议。