PERSPECTIVE
Child protection
Are children really safeguarded in the UK health service?
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr C Graham
National Public Health Service, Preswylfa Hendy Road Mold, Wales CH7 1PZ, UK; carys.graham@nphs.wales.nhs.uk
Perspective on the paper by Harris et al(see page71)
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
The death of Victoria Climbié was the most appalling tragedy. Victoria’s death had lessons for all agencies, including health. These were not new and have been stated all too often, both before and since. The same points are made time after time in reports, inquiries, serious case reviews and adverse incidents.
The question for the health service is:
Has the Laming Inquiry made a difference?
Certainly Lord Laming’s Inquiry and its recommendations, directed at chief executives, has stirred things in the health service. In both England and Wales, immediately post Climbié, there were for the first time self-audits by the Commission for Health Improvement, conducted at board level, of health organisations’ fitness for purpose in respect of child protection. The replacement bodies, the Healthcare Commission (England) and Health Inspectorate (Wales), now both have a clear remit to monitor the safeguarding of children in the health service.
Recent years
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
Relevant Articles
-
A brief digest of the March issue
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: e3.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Implementation of the healthcare recommendations arising from the Victoria Climbié report
- D Harris, T Patel, J Dunne, and I K Maconochie
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: 71-72.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
-
A brief digest of the January issue
Arch. Dis. Child. 2007 92: e1.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in ADC Online
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
