Medical Experts in the Family Court: Where Two Worlds Collide
Gresham College Lectures
Is There a Need for Better Information Collecting?
I think it's about really the information collecting that happens at the hospital and whether the process could be improved. I think different, any departments, different NHSes are under a different amount of stresses and strains. It wouldn't be a surprise for you to find in six to twelve months time that there had been missed opportunities to safeguard some children. We now have particular safeguarding pediatricians in most hospitals. But we almost always will be accused of taking children into that system unnecessarily. The balance between doing that necessarily and proportionately, the children coming through versus the pressures on getting the rest of the NHS working is slightly in conflict. In public law, ultimately the taxpayer pays,. because the local authority
