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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

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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 . . . [Full text of this article]

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