Paediatric medico-legal reports
Child Protection Reports
Care and family proceedings often need an independent paediatric view of a child’s injuries or health. We provide child protection reports for these proceedings, using court-experienced consultants. You see the expert’s CV before you instruct. The report is written to the expert’s duty to the court. Experts are frequently instructed jointly.
Overview
What a child protection report is
A child protection report is an independent assessment of a child’s injuries, presentation or health where protection concerns are raised. Whether harm was inflicted is a matter for the court; the expert’s role is the independent medical view.
Why it matters legally
When a child protection report is commissioned
It is commissioned in public law care proceedings under the Family Procedure Rules, usually with the court’s permission and often as a single joint expert.
What the report covers
The ground a child protection report covers
Who produces it
The specialists on a child protection report
A consultant paediatrician produces the report, with a paediatric radiologist for fracture dating and skeletal survey interpretation where imaging is in issue.
Where it is used
Proceedings that rely on this report
Child protection reports support care proceedings and matters involving non-accidental injury, where an independent medical view is needed.
FAQ
Child protection reports: common questions
Frequently, as a single joint expert under FPR Part 25, with the court’s permission.
A consultant paediatrician, with a paediatric radiologist for fracture dating and skeletal survey interpretation where imaging is in issue.
In public law care proceedings under the Family Procedure Rules, usually with the court’s permission and often as a single joint expert.
Yes. Child protection reports are prepared by court-experienced consultants, with the report written to the expert’s duty to the court.
Within 48 hours of your enquiry, with the CV sent for review before you instruct.
Instructing on a child protection report?
Send your case details and we will allocate a court-experienced consultant within 48 hours, with a same-working-day quotation and the CV before you instruct.