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BOOK REVIEW
Safeguards for young minds: young people and protective legislation, 2nd edn
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Edited by Richard White, Anthony Harbour, Richard Williams. Gaskell (The Royal College of Psychiatrists), 2004, £15.00, pp 118. ISBN 1 904671 02 0
This book is invaluable for child psychiatrists, but not all paediatricians would be so attracted to it, except those who wish to understand the legal basis of child protection work. Those who might see it as irrelevant would be missing out on the combined rich experience of two paediatric solicitors and one child psychiatrist.
The chapter on consent is essential for all clinicians dealing with children, and has …