GPs should attend protection events

The UK-wide guidance, which takes the form of a toolkit and two training modules, aims to help doctors improve their work in protecting children from abuse. The toolkit says GPs have an invaluable role to play in child protection and they should prioritise attendance at child protection conferences wherever possible.

Dr Andrew Mowat, the Royal College's child health lead and chair of the Primary Care Child Safeguarding Forum, said: "There is a lot of information on safeguarding children available to healthcare professionals and GPs can be uncertain about their role within the process. We hope this toolkit will improve this situation and that as many practice teams as possible will use it in their dealings with vulnerable children and young people."

- www.cypnow.co.uk/doc.