Strengthening our child protection services

Child protection is an issue of fundamental importance to NHS Lothian, to our partner agencies, and to every single member of our staff. It remains a top priority and simultaneously one of our most challenging areas of work.

We continue to strengthen child protection services through close inter-agency working between the NHS, local authorities and police.

Training our staff in child protection

We have a learning a development strategy for all staff in identifying and respoding to child protection concerns.

Our Public Protection Team exists to ensure that every healthcare employee receives training in child protection. This is a rolling programme of training to meet the varying professional needs of our staff.

We ALL have a role to play in child protection

NHS Lothian and our partners have systems in place to identify and help children who may be at risk of abuse and neglect or other forms of harm.