General Practitioners need to be aware of child protection because of its devastating consequences. Their teams need to be aware of child protection issues because we all of us have a responsibility to care for children. Training needs to be ongoing because for most of us, having contact with abused children is a thankfully rare event. Safeguarding therefore needs to be at the forefront of our minds so that we do not miss an opportunity to help a child at risk.

Ongoing training should therefore be part of our personal learning programme. There is much training available in Derbyshire, and GPs can contact their named doctors and named nurses for advice on which courses are valuable.

The RCGP has published a toolkit for General Practice on Safeguarding Children and young people intended for use by the practice team

To download this file click here. (Child Protection Toolkit)

This page was last updated on: 07 June 2008