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Archives of Disease in Childhood 2008;93:4-6; doi:10.1136/adc.2006.099838
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Complaints in child protection

Linda Haines1, Jacqueline Turton2

1 Research Division, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London, UK
2 Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

Correspondence to:
Linda Haines, Research Division, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 50 Hallam Street, London W1W 6DE, UK; Linda.haines@rcpch.ac.uk

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The current difficulties facing paediatricians working in child protection have already been well documented.13 Studies have shown that as well as causing significant stress and psychological morbidity,4 complaints against UK paediatricians in relation to a child protection issue are becoming increasingly common.5 A survey of members of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) found that 13.8% of over 4500 respondents had been subject to a total of 786 complaints about child protection and that the number of complaints per year had increased from less than 20 in 1995 to over 100 in 2003.6

Although worrying, the finding that the number of child protection complaints rose fivefold in 4 years needs to be set in context. Over this same period there were still almost twice as many paediatricians with a non-child protection complaint against them, and information from the Medical Defence Union shows that complaints to the General . . . [Full text of this article]




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