The UK Medicines For Children Research Network, which launches next month, has been set up because most medicines used to treat children are designed for adults and not properly tested on young people.
The network aims to set up a raft of local research centres nationwide with increased involvement from children in testing and through consumer panels to gain views on issues such as flavour and appearance.
The National Children's Bureau is one of the bodies involved in the network and is taking the lead in training medical research staff at a local level to better involve children and parents.
The NCB is also looking at ways of involving children and parents in the setting up and operation of centres and has created a consumer liaison officer role to manage this. NCB director of research Ruth Sinclair said: "What we want to do is make sure children are involved at all stages of the process. It is fair to say that their involvement has been lacking so far."
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