Match your concerns about the child to your Local Safeguarding Children Board/Local Safeguarding Partners’ ‘Threshold document’ sometimes referred to as ‘Responding to need guidance and levels of need framework’. Refer to the document relating to where the child lives, for example:

Whilst you may have child welfare or safeguarding concerns, your response will depend upon the child’s needs. This may lead you to initiate an early help assessment, make a statutory child in need referral to children’s services or a statutory child protection referral to children’s services.