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A pair of important leading articles
Our leading article section, under the direction of Patrick Cartlidge, is meant to address important national and international clinical, health services, and policy issues. In this issue, two such articles appear. Drs. Mathews, Payne, Bonnet, and Chadwick, experts in child protection from Australia, Wales, France, and the US, discuss ways to ensure that British paediatricians participate in child abuse work. They cite one revealing statistic, the number of substantiated cases of abuse and neglect are significantly lower in England (3/1000) compared to Australia (7/1000), US (12/1000), and Canada (14/1000). They do not believe that these figures reflect less abuse, but rather represent the reluctance of paediatricians in England to engage in the business of child protection. They state unequivocally that the most effective way to change the climate that surrounds child protection in England is "enacting legislative immunity from legal and administrative proceedings where a report is made in good
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