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References\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc24444025 \\h \u001418\u0015\u0015\n\u0015\nAim of Guidance\nThis guidance has been developed in conjunction with North Yorkshire and City of York partner agencies and seeks to assist professionals when considering safeguarding concerns relating to unborn children.  It is designed to help all professionals to carefully consider a range of themes and to identify issues that have potential for having a significant negative impact on the safety and wellbeing of unborn babies. Importantly, the guidance aims to support social workers when undertaking an assessment of risk and need.\nIntroduction\nThe 2016 analysis of serious case reviews (DfE, 2016) found that, as with previous national analyses, the largest proportion of cases were in relation to children under one year of age with nearly half of these (43%) being under three months of age. This has been a pattern in Child Protection since records began to be kept, and seems to relate to 3 factors – physical vulnerability of the infant; its invisibility in the wider community and inability to speak for itself; and the physical and psychological strain it places upon its caregivers. It is critical, therefore, that Local Children’s Safeguarding Partnerships (LSCPs) have robust procedures in place, both to identify the unborn children  most at risk and then to effectively manage their welfare and safety at the earliest opportunity.\nThe nature of safeguarding work dictates that the most successful preventative action can be taken if vulnerable children are identified as early as possible – this includes identifying such children during pregnancy. This early warning system can only operate in a meaningful way if there is an agreed interagency commitment to the importance of this area of safeguarding, and that all professionals work together to assess and manage the response to this high-risk group.\nIdentification of Need and Risk During Pregnancy\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://www.proceduresonline.com/swcpp/somerset/p_prebirth_sg_unborn.html\" \u0014Parents who may require additional support\u0015:\nParents with LD who may need help to manage caring for a young child – ‘a learning disability affects the way a person understands information and how they communicate. This means they can have difficulty understanding new or complex information, learning new skills and coping independently. Around 1.5 million people in the UK have a learning disability.’ (\u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/learning-disabilities/\" \u0014https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/learning-disabilities/\u0015 ). The UK legislative framework dictates that parents with learning difficulties have a right to have children and to be supported in bringing them up. However, it is recognised that such parents will face a particular set of problems and challenges, including accessing antenatal care, understanding information about their pregnancy and birth choices or medical information about their baby. 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