Paul Nutteing
2004-11-08 18:33:59 UTC
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1345842,00.html
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Hodge calls for child care review
Clare Dyer, legal correspondent
Monday November 8, 2004
The Guardian
The children's minister, Margaret Hodge, is to write to social services
departments suggesting that they review care cases in which a
now-discredited expert witness, Colin Paterson, gave evidence.
The fear is that Dr Paterson's evidence, given over two decades in courts in
England, Scotland and the US, could have led courts to return children to
homes where they could be in danger.
Unlike the paediatrician Sir Roy Meadow, criticised as too ready to label
parents abusers, Dr Paterson was lambasted by judges as a peddler of dubious
explanations to exonerate them.
Eventually, England's senior family judge, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss,
reported him to the General Medical Council.
The council, while accepting his "sincerity", struck him off the medical
register last March for serious professional misconduct.
Bruce Clark, head of the vulnerable children division in the Department for
Education and Skills, told barristers at the Bar conference in London on
Saturday that Mrs Hodge would be writing to local councils about Dr
Paterson.
He said the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse
and Neglect had drawn to the department's attention "that experts might be
flawed in more than one direction".
Dr Paterson, a retired chemical pathologist, argued in many cases that
children with fractures apparently caused by their parents were actually
suffering from "temporary brittle bone disease", a condition which few, if
any, specialists believe exists.
He himself estimated that between 60 and 70 children were returned to their
parents as a result of his evidence.
High court judges had doubts about Dr Paterson for years but because family
court cases are heard in private, magistrates and circuit judges were likely
to be unaware of his history.
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Quote
Hodge calls for child care review
Clare Dyer, legal correspondent
Monday November 8, 2004
The Guardian
The children's minister, Margaret Hodge, is to write to social services
departments suggesting that they review care cases in which a
now-discredited expert witness, Colin Paterson, gave evidence.
The fear is that Dr Paterson's evidence, given over two decades in courts in
England, Scotland and the US, could have led courts to return children to
homes where they could be in danger.
Unlike the paediatrician Sir Roy Meadow, criticised as too ready to label
parents abusers, Dr Paterson was lambasted by judges as a peddler of dubious
explanations to exonerate them.
Eventually, England's senior family judge, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss,
reported him to the General Medical Council.
The council, while accepting his "sincerity", struck him off the medical
register last March for serious professional misconduct.
Bruce Clark, head of the vulnerable children division in the Department for
Education and Skills, told barristers at the Bar conference in London on
Saturday that Mrs Hodge would be writing to local councils about Dr
Paterson.
He said the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse
and Neglect had drawn to the department's attention "that experts might be
flawed in more than one direction".
Dr Paterson, a retired chemical pathologist, argued in many cases that
children with fractures apparently caused by their parents were actually
suffering from "temporary brittle bone disease", a condition which few, if
any, specialists believe exists.
He himself estimated that between 60 and 70 children were returned to their
parents as a result of his evidence.
High court judges had doubts about Dr Paterson for years but because family
court cases are heard in private, magistrates and circuit judges were likely
to be unaware of his history.
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