It refers to the role of NHS employees, including paediatricians, several times. It calls for child doctors to be helped to develop a wider range of skills and for the profession to engage more fully with child protection work.
However, the newly appointed president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), Terence Stephenson, is confident that processes are already in place to ensure potential danger signs are spotted and acted on.
"Laming wasn't particularly critical of paediatricians," he says. "The training that we have on offer has been developed fairly recently - produced in the last couple of years. All paediatricians are involved in recognising children who have been abused or neglected."
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