Dr Andrew Rowland's Outputs (124)

Time to change the reference ranges of children’s physiological observations in emergency care? A prospective study (2023)
Journal Article

Background
High heart and respiratory rates are key indicators in many published guidelines to identify
and treat serious bacterial infection and sepsis in children but the credibility of evidence
underpinning what is considered abnormal is questi... Read More about Time to change the reference ranges of children’s physiological observations in emergency care? A prospective study.

Physical punishment of children : time to end the defence of reasonable chastisement in the UK, USA and Australia (2017)
Journal Article
time to end the defence of reasonable chastisement in the UK, USA and Australia. International Journal of Children's Rights, 25(1), 165-195. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02501007

As at March 2016, 49 states had reformed their laws to clearly prohibit all corporal punishment of children (United Nations 1989) in all settings, including the home (Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, n.d.) By January 2017... Read More about Physical punishment of children : time to end the defence of reasonable chastisement in the UK, USA and Australia.

The association between temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate in children aged under 16 years attending urgent and emergency care settings (2022)
Journal Article
Heal, C., Harvey, A., Brown, S., Rowland, A. G., & Roland, D. (2022). The association between temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate in children aged under 16 years attending urgent and emergency care settings. European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 29(6), 413-416. https://doi.org/10.1097/mej.0000000000000951

Background and importance Body temperature is considered an independent determinant of respiratory rate and heart rate; however, there is limited scientific evidence regarding the association. This study aimed to assess the association between temper... Read More about The association between temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate in children aged under 16 years attending urgent and emergency care settings.

Strategies to combatting violence in society, including violence against women and girls
Preprint / Working Paper

For at least two decades it has been recognised that violence is not an intractable social problem or an inevitable part of the human condition. Our global society can do much to address and prevent violence. For every person who dies as a result of... Read More about Strategies to combatting violence in society, including violence against women and girls.

Equal protection from assault in England and Northern Ireland (2024)
Report
Fussey, E., Gerry, F., Herbert, B., Havighurst, S., Higgins, D., Schaff, O., & Rowland, A. (2024). Equal protection from assault in England and Northern Ireland. London: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Amend the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to protect children from assault (2025)
Journal Article

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is an important opportunity to finally remove the defence of reasonable punishment of children in England, write Andrew Rowland and Grace Hastie

Safe Havens in Health: Standards of Care for Children and Young People Seeking Asylum and Refugees (2025)
Journal Article

This review outlines current literature regarding access to and quality of healthcare for children and young people seeking asylum and refugees (CYPSAR) in the UK. The multiple factors influencing their experiences are explored, alongside the optimal... Read More about Safe Havens in Health: Standards of Care for Children and Young People Seeking Asylum and Refugees.

The "reasonable punishment" of children defence in England should be consigned to history Author (2025)
Journal Article

Ensuring children’s wellbeing by ending the physical punishment of children : Briefing for parliamentarians. (2025)
Report

In 2025, it cannot be right that children, the youngest and most vulnerable group in society, are the
least protected from physical assault.

Leading organisations working in child health, child protection and safeguarding, human rights,
mental h... Read More about Ensuring children’s wellbeing by ending the physical punishment of children : Briefing for parliamentarians..

Standards for Healthcare Delivery to Children and Young People Seeking Asylum and Refugees (CYPSAR) (2025)
Report

Children and young people seeking asylum and refugees (CYPSAR) are a vulnerable population with complex physical and mental health needs. In the UK, significant variation in healthcare delivery for CYPSAR leads to disparities in access and quality of... Read More about Standards for Healthcare Delivery to Children and Young People Seeking Asylum and Refugees (CYPSAR).

Hearing the voices of children: creating an Advocacy Centre in Gorton, Manchester, UK (2025)
Report

Hearing the voices of children: creating an Advocacy Centre in Gorton, Manchester, UK.

This project introduces the concept of a children's advocacy centre at a primary school in Gorton, Manchester. The project is an initial phase of a wider projec... Read More about Hearing the voices of children: creating an Advocacy Centre in Gorton, Manchester, UK.

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health evidence submission to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Committee (2025)
Report

Abolition of the common law defence of reasonable punishment of children in England: evidence to UK Parliament (Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee) (2025)
Report

The authors of this submission support New Clause (NC) 10 and consequential Amendment
11 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (“CWSB”) before the UK Parliament (as at
21 January 2025) and believe that these amendments should both be made to... Read More about Abolition of the common law defence of reasonable punishment of children in England: evidence to UK Parliament (Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill Committee).

Putting child health at the centre of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (2025)
Report
Rowland, A., & Hastie, G. (2025). Putting child health at the centre of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

This report sets out the main themes of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill and highlights its most significant aspects for children, young people and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) members. Children’s social care and sch... Read More about Putting child health at the centre of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

The time for debate is over: The health, education, and legal case for legislative change to prohibit and eliminate all physical punishment of children and to achieve equal protection from assault in England and Northern Ireland (2024)
Journal Article

Within the UK, children in England and Northern Ireland are the only people who are not fully protected in law from assault. Scotland and Wales have paved the way towards the UK becoming a more equal society and better protecting children, leaving En... Read More about The time for debate is over: The health, education, and legal case for legislative change to prohibit and eliminate all physical punishment of children and to achieve equal protection from assault in England and Northern Ireland.

PROPOSED Amendment To The Children's Wellbeing And Schools Bill (2024)
Other
Rowland, A. (2024). PROPOSED Amendment To The Children's Wellbeing And Schools Bill

There is a significant missed opportunity to use the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill [Bill 151; 59/1] to bring in the Equal Protection (from assault) which children in England need, deserve, and are, frankly, entitled to. The introduction of Eq... Read More about PROPOSED Amendment To The Children's Wellbeing And Schools Bill.

RCPCH responds to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (2024)
Other
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, & Rowland, A. (2024). RCPCH responds to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. London, UK

For too long and far too often, the needs of our children and young people have been ignored by national policymakers, so it’s good to see Government publish a Bill that is said to have an aim to create a ‘child-centred Government’.

However, we... Read More about RCPCH responds to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

DRAFT Children (Equal Protection) (England) Bill Proposal 2024 (2024)
Working Paper
Rowland, A. DRAFT Children (Equal Protection) (England) Bill Proposal 2024

This working draft proposes possible text for a Children (Equal Protection) England Bill 2024 which would bring in the Equal Protection (from assault) which children in England need, deserve, and are, frankly, entitled to. The wording could alternati... Read More about DRAFT Children (Equal Protection) (England) Bill Proposal 2024.

General election: a generational change in Westminster - but what does it all mean for child health and wellbeing? (2024)
Report
Rowland, A. (2024). General election: a generational change in Westminster - but what does it all mean for child health and wellbeing?. London: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

A generational change in Westminster – but what does it all mean for child health and wellbeing?

RCPCH responds to NSPCC’s corporal punishment data (2024)
Digital Artefact
Rowland, A., Fussey, E., & Kennedy, L. RCPCH responds to NSPCC’s corporal punishment data. [Online]

The negative health impacts of physical punishment in childhood are well documented, clear and need no further debate. Children who experience physical punishment are more likely to develop poorer mental health and are more likely to experience serio... Read More about RCPCH responds to NSPCC’s corporal punishment data.