A report by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) says that rising demand and shortages across the children's health workforce mean many trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are not recruiting or failing to fill vacancies for specialist health roles for their area’s most vulnerable children.
This includes specialist support for safeguarding, looked-after children, young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or posts related to child deaths.
The RCPCH’s focus on vulnerable children and families paediatric workforce report found that in England around a quarter (23.1 per cent) of trust do not have a designated doctor for child deaths, while just under half (45.1 per cent) do not have a named doctor for looked-after children.
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