The warning follows fears that child protection concerns are beingmissed due to the poor quality of safeguarding training for theprofession. Though nurses often encounter children in distressingcircumstances they receive limited child protection training and are notencouraged to play an active role in putting families in touch withservices.
However, in her review of mental health nursing, released last week,chief nursing officer Christine Beasley recommended that all mentalhealth nurses should regularly access advice and guidance from named anddesignated child protection professionals.
Tim McDougall, a former nurse adviser for child and adolescent mentalhealth services at the Department of Health, who helped to draw up therecommendations, said that the move was a big opportunity to improveservices.
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