Care Quality Commission report on the NHS care of Baby Peter - 13 May 2009

RCPCH reponse to Care Quality Commission report on the NHS care of Baby Peter - 13 May 2009

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health:

We are pleased the Care Quality Commission recognises the importance of safeguarding training and our training programmes.

Our current child protection training programmes include: 'Level 1: Recognition and Response in Child Protection' - identification and reporting for junior trainees in paediatrics - and 'Level 2: Child Protection in Practice' - diagnosis and management for experienced trainees - which is due to be launched shortly.

We have also received funding from the Department of Health to provide training for all senior paediatricians, including consultants, who will continue to come across child protection concerns in their daily work.

It is important that all paediatricians must also be competent in attending court and giving evidence. The RCPCH recognises this through our court skills course.

Providing training is vitally important, but we also need to ensure that staffing levels are appropriate. This is something that we are taking very seriously and we will continue to press the government on this.

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For more information about child protection - click here