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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 (2025)
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.

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.

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.

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.

Simulated Initial Child Protection Conference (2024)
Digital Artefact

This is a simulated Child Protection Conference to be used for education purposes. All of the people involved were acting in role and the family and scenario were simulated.

Simulated Strategy Meeting (2024)
Data

This is a Simulated Strategy Meeting which occurred prior to a Simulated Child Protection Conference, used for education purposes.

The impact of COVID 19 on children, young people, and families in Sihanoukville, Cambodia : the mitigating work of M’Lop Tapang (2024)
Report
Kelly, A., Guest, K., Chamroeun, U., Sinat, D., & Graeme, A. (2024). The impact of COVID 19 on children, young people, and families in Sihanoukville, Cambodia : the mitigating work of M’Lop Tapang

Globally, children have been adversely affected by the wide variety of impacts of SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus | COVID-19). Vulnerable children who depend on the support of education and health and social care systems were left unprotected as these system... Read More about The impact of COVID 19 on children, young people, and families in Sihanoukville, Cambodia : the mitigating work of M’Lop Tapang.

Child Protection - Update RCPCH Conference 2024 (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Fussey, E., & Rowland, A. (2024, March). Child Protection - Update RCPCH Conference 2024. Presented at Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Annual Conference 2024, Birmingham

RCPCH Child Protection Service Delivery Standards Audit National Report 2023 (2024)
Report
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. (2024). RCPCH Child Protection Service Delivery Standards Audit National Report 2023. London, UK: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Foreword by Professor Andrew Rowland

It is a pleasure to have been asked to write the foreword to this important new report from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. I want to start by saying a huge thank you. Thank you to all of you... Read More about RCPCH Child Protection Service Delivery Standards Audit National Report 2023.

Ditch Age Assessments: Children Seeking Asylum and Refuge in the UK (2023)
Other
Rowland, A., Enver, S., Elizabeth, C., Fussey, E., Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, & Council, R. (2023). Ditch Age Assessments: Children Seeking Asylum and Refuge in the UK

The Home Office’s latest age assessment measures, announced in September 2023, will allow the use of scientific age assessment methods to estimate the age of children arriving in the UK. This would subject them to medical procedures that leading paed... Read More about Ditch Age Assessments: Children Seeking Asylum and Refuge in the UK.