The proposed certificate in child protection would equip GPs to act asleads within primary care trusts or over a number of practices.
The scheme, under development by the Royal College of GeneralPractitioners, was revealed last week in the college's child protectionstrategy, which sets out its "viewpoint" or policy for the next fiveyears.
Dr Ruth Bastable, the strategy's author and the college's childprotection lead, said: "This means child protection has an establishedplace in the work plan of the college."
The strategy acknowledges the importance of working on "attitudinalissues" as well as the skills gap on child protection concerns among GPsand that training should be "predominantly inter-professional" andpractice-based.
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