Accident and emergency department access to the child protection register: a questionnaire survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To ascertain how UK accident and emergency (A&E) departments access the child protection register, their levels of satisfaction with that access and their criteria for checking the register.

Methods

A postal questionnaire was sent to 254 "major" A&E departments listed in the 1996 British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine directory.

Results

190 questionnaires were returned (response rate 75%). Ninety (48%) responding departments access the register through the duty social worker, 33 (17%) use a computerised copy, 32 (17%) a hard copy and 27 (14%) a combination. Twenty seven of 33 respondents (82%) using a computerised copy were satisfied with their mode of access. This compares with figures of 21 (66%) for hard copy, 45 (50%) for duty social wo

SUBMITTER: Quin G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1725807 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature