CYP Now - Health News: Child Protection - PCTs called on to commission service

GPs are calling for child protection to be offered as a service commissioned by primary care trusts, following news that a proposal for a pilot project is to be made at the next meeting of the children's taskforce.

Andrew Mowat, a named GP for child protection in Lincolnshire, said he had been lobbying his PCT to accept a bid for a service for child protection.

Mowat, who chairs a team that reviews cases on his practice list which are also on the child protection register, said that while his practice partners were "happy for the moment to let me have the time to run the team", the voluntary service, which handles 20 to 30 cases a month, was surviving on goodwill.

He said that GPs were often unable to make case conference meetings because they had to fund locum cover themselves, and that GP child protection services needed to be formalised and funded.

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