Question follow-through · 104877

Medical Examinations: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides on the minimum training and professional standards required for healthcare professionals undertaking child protection medicals for safeguarding assessments.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 12 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 14 Jan 2026
Answer: 20 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

12 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides on the minimum training and professional standards required for healthcare professionals undertaking child protection medicals for safeguarding assessments.
14 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2026
Answer published
Standards of proficiency, conduct, and performance of registered professionals are the statutory responsibility of healthcare regulators, such as the General Medical Council for doctors and the Nursing and Midwifery Council for nurses and midwives, which ...

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