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Ending the physical punishment of children in England – joint briefing

In 2025, it cannot be right that children, the youngest and most vulnerable group in society, are the least protected from physical assault. This joint briefing calls on Peers to support an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing bill to give children equal protection from assault.

Safeguarding

Physical abuse

Public affairs and campaigning

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International conflict - position statement

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is mandated by its mission to support improving child health in the UK and around the world. The College will continue to advocate for the best interests of children and paediatricians around the world, whoever they are and wherever they may be. We a...

Global child health

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Volunteering with us

Our members share their professional expertise with RCPCH every day - helping to improve the lives of paediatricians and child health, and gaining valuable experiences. We have a wide range of roles for members, and in turn offer you support from our friendly staff teams, training and recognition.

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Embracing neurodiversity and supporting neurodivergent paediatricians - guidance

This guidance promotes neuro-inclusivity in paediatric training and beyond. It provides key information on neurodiversity, including the strengths of the neurodivergent workforce as well as the challenges they may face and how they can be supported.

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NNAP Data Assurance Webinar: Checking and validating your 2024 data

In January 2025, the National Neonatal Audit Programme at RCPCH hosted this webinar to support those responsible for quality assuring their neonatal units' 2024 NNAP data.

Neonatal medicine

Data

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Workforce Information - Deep dive on bed occupancy in Devolved Nations, Winter 2025

We collate and analyse paediatric workforce and service information in the UK to support members, workforce planners and policy makers. Previously, we examined bed occupancy throughout England and for our fourth data 'deep dive', we review bed occupancy rates once again but this time across Scotland...

Data

Workforce

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Your future starts here: careers at RCPCH

We are a vibrant and diverse College, led by our Core Values to work together to advance child health practice, shape policy, set educational standards and empower paediatricians.

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Rota gaps survey findings 2024

According to our UK-wide survey of College members, paediatric services in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland are facing rota gaps of over 20%, with Wales services at 11.3%. Tier 2 rotas were generally more impacted than Tier 1 and combined general/neonatal services had the highest gaps. Less th...

Data

Workforce

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Review with LGBTQ+ young people led by Association for Young People’s Health 2024

In 2024 we commissioned the Association for Young People's Health (AYPH) to undertake a short engagement project with LGBTQ+ young people to inform the update of our principle statement, Supporting LGBTQ+ children and young people, which had been first published in 2020 (and has now been updated as ...

Health policy

Children and young people's voice

LGBTQ+

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Eligibility for Healthy Start (England, Northern Ireland & Wales) - consultation response

In October 2024 we responded to The Department of Health and Social Care's consultation on the eligibility to the Healthy Start scheme. The purpose of this consultation was to seek views on whether eligibility for Healthy Start should be extended further to include others who are prevented from acce...

Public health