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Health and social workers urge Home Office to reconsider unethical age assessments for children seeking asylum

27 November 2023

Leading paediatricians, dentists and social care workers have written to the Home Secretary urging him to reconsider the use of x-rays as methods of age assessments for children seeking asylum in the UK.

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Measles resurgence forces children's doctors to update national guidance ahead of potential outbreak

21 November 2023

Paediatricians are being asked to look out for measles amid the winter season while also calling on Government for the long-awaited vaccine strategy.

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Making Equality, Diversity and Inclusion everybody's business - EDI strategic plan 2023/24

Over the last three years our work in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) has seen us achieve several objectives from the 'putting ladders down' and 'working for change' programmes of work. As we enter a new phase of our EDI strategy, our plan for 2023/24 outlines four new themes and a set of ac...

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Equality, diversity and inclusion - reciprocal mentoring programme

Reciprocal mentoring learns from the traditional mentoring model but is not the same. Each member of a mentoring pair is an equal partner and work to understand each other's lived experiences, create trust, champion change and inform decision-making. Our reciprocal mentoring programme aims to eng...

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Equality, diversity and inclusion - useful resources for members

To support our members in all things EDI we have created this resource bank as a central repository. Here you will find information relating to guidance on the care cost fund, stories from members of our EDI reference group and links to other organisations' charters that we are supporting.

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The Great Paediatric Bake Off – episode six!

5 September 2023

It's a new school year and Dr Ash Patel is back with a new bake: Persian Love Cakes. He's joined by EDI champions, Mike Farquhar and Jaspreet Kaur, to discuss the Rainbow Badge Project and Soft Landings.

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Living our values when it counts most - President's blog

28 April 2023

Camilla sends hope to colleagues in Sudan. She shares thoughts on the updated Healthcare Standards for Children and Young People in Secure Settings and gives a timely reminder on the updated training programme structure: Progress+.

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Removing Barriers – care cost fund for volunteers

Removing Barriers is part of our original equality, diversity and inclusion work looking at making volunteer roles more accessible and inclusive. The main aim is to remove any potential barriers that can prevent our members from participating in our volunteer opportunities.

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Learning lessons from a difficult winter - President's blog

31 March 2023

Camilla has been lobbying for child health at a number of important events this week. She also highlights our newly published Equality, Diversity and Inclusion report and the useful FOMOHub resource.

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Working for change – our 'two years on' report on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

28 March 2023

We are pleased to publish the latest report documenting our work to date on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Alongside this we share the latest diversity data of our members, volunteers and staff, and launch a new reciprocal mentoring programme.