Child Abuse
After a successful campaign to improve the safe space provisions in the Health and Care Bill, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) explains why this is a step forward for patient safety. Following its return from the House of Lords to the House of Commons this week, both chambers have now agreed that coroners should not routinely… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, announced today it will be offering to waive the first year of membership subscriptions for doctors who are fleeing the Ukraine or other conflict zones and are looking to resume practice in NHS roles. This follows news that the GMC is planning to fast track… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff A controversial scheme allowing parents to check if someone close to their children has a history of sex offending will be expanding. The scheme, which originally operated in Warwickshire, is now in force in Hampshire, Cambridge, and Cleveland. So far, police have received 79 requests for information and disclosed in ten cases…. Read more »
Mr Speaker, in November last year, I commissioned an urgent inspection of children’s services in Haringey following the failure of agencies in that borough to intervene decisively to protect a little boy. And following the Joint Inspectors’ report, I took the immediate actions I judged necessary to protect vulnerable children in Haringey. I also asked… Read more »
