Perspectives
Complaints in child protection
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
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
The current difficulties facing paediatricians working in child protection have already been well documented.1–3 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
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
This article has been cited by other articles:
-
Mathews, B., Payne, H., Bonnet, C., Chadwick, D.
(2009). A way to restore British paediatricians' engagement with child protection. Arch. Dis. Child.
94: 329-332
[Full Text] -
Payne, H.
(2008). The jigsaw of child protection. JRSM
101: 93-94
[Full Text]
- 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
- Citation Map
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.
