Procedures and child protection: Italian protocols and guidelines on child abuse - The Coordinamento Italiano dei Servizi contro il Maltrattamento e l’Abuso all’Infanzia (CISMAI) (Italian Committee of the Services Against the Children Abuse) worked out, during the last ten years, some documents concerning guidelines, which define different aspects of the management of abuse and ill treatment cases against children: shared ethical codes for the operators, services requirements and standards procedures for treatment, guide-lines for the clinical evaluation. The aim of the present contribution is to present the impact of this guidelines related to many protocols and instruments adopted at local and regional levels.
Key words: procedures, guidelines, protection, child abuse.