I believe most professionals in all fields are concerned about child protection. The issue is not that staff want to be paid a personal fee as individuals to attend child protection meetings but the real difficulties some settings face when wanting to send a staff member. It may be that there is no-one else to cover the class or take surgery or no funds available to fund supply staff and so on. (Unless there is a pot of money out there we don't know about?)
Ruth Fox, assistant child protection officer, Lincolnshire County Council
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