Safeguarding in the COVID-19 pandemic: a UK tertiary children’s hospital experience
Open Access
- 6 January 2021
- journal article
- letter
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 106 (4), e24
- https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2020-320354
Abstract
There is emerging evidence of increase in injuries to children associated with abuse or neglect during the lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.1 We report an increase in the numbers of children under 16 years, during the COVID-19 lockdown period, with safeguarding concerns, and who were admitted under neurosurgery for head/spinal injuries following falls from height.Keywords
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