Diabetes 'a safeguarding issue', finds serious case review

Nina Jacobs
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

?Public sector workers should be required to consider diabetes in children and young people as a safeguarding risk, a serious case review into the death of diabetic teenager has recommended.

Around 35,000 UK children and young people under the age of 19 have diabetes, of which 96 per cent have type 1. Image: Lucie Carlier
Around 35,000 UK children and young people under the age of 19 have diabetes, of which 96 per cent have type 1. Image: Lucie Carlier

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