Last month at a meeting of child protection professionals, officers from the Metropolitan Police Child Abuse Investigation Command suggested that some child abusers were taking injured children to walk-in centres as opposed to accident and emergency (A&E) departments, since walk-in centres have less robust safeguarding procedures in place.
But Trish Morris-Thompson told CYP Now that safeguarding arrangements in walk-in centres are equal to those in A&E departments.
"The evidence that we have here at NHS London is that it is not an issue," she said. "Every new facility that is established in the NHS, which includes walk-in centres, must have safeguarding children arrangements in place as per the London safeguarding board guidelines."
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