Child protection ethics
Picked up at the Primary Care Conference the interesting journal Clinical Ethics. Vol 2(4) has a good article on the ethics of child protection work from a medical point of view, particularly looking at recent GMC cases, but also wider duties on healthcare staff. While all healthcare staff have a clear duty of care to children, the ambiguity of many of the indicators of child abuse raises questions about how proactive they should be on pushing a child into the system, particularly if you have doubts about how effective the system is in helping children.
Larcher, V. (2007) Ethical issues in child protection. Clinical Ethics 2(4): 208-12.