Children's Rights Training for Health Care Professionals
Helen Stalford and Aoife Daly
ECRU has been delivering training to NHS nurses across the North of England on how to deal with consent in the context of school-based vaccinations.
The training responds to growing concerns among nurses that parents are failing, for various reasons, to consent to their children being vaccinated against illnesses such as HPV, a common sexually transmitted infection. This failure to consent means that hundreds of children in the North of England are left without adequate protection.
The training (a half-day session) provides nurses with updated knowledge of the current law relating to consent and capacity in a medical context and offers guidance on how to apply this law to practical scenarios to empower children to consent to their own vaccinations.
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