Working as a paediatrician over the last few months has been unlike any other time in my career. The restrictions and changes for children, young people and their families have been enormous. My colleagues and I have felt anxious about the risk to children and young people while schools are closed, services are reconfigured and families are ‘locked down’ at home. As a paediatrician with a special interest in safeguarding, this has posed a range of challenges and offered a few unexpected opportunities. Our task, as we begin to restore our services, is to build on the handful of positive outcomes that have arisen from this pandemic and work together to address the immense safeguarding challenges emerging over the coming months and years. This paper explores some of the clinical situations in which safeguarding challenges have presented themselves during the pandemic. It then explores some of the opportunities that the reconfiguration of services has presented for those working in child health.

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在大流行中保护儿童：有可能出现大流行吗？

在过去的几个月里，作为一名儿科医生工作与我职业生涯中的任何其他时间都不同。对儿童、年轻人及其家庭的限制和变化是巨大的。我和我的同事们对学校关闭、服务重新配置以及家庭被“封锁”在家中给儿童和年轻人带来的风险感到焦虑。作为一名对保护特别感兴趣的儿科医生，这带来了一系列挑战，并提供了一些意想不到的机会。在我们开始恢复服务时，我们的任务是在这一流行病带来的一些积极成果的基础上再接再厉，共同努力应对未来几个月和几年内出现的巨大保障挑战。本文探讨了在大流行期间出现保障挑战的一些临床情况。然后，它探讨了服务重新配置为从事儿童健康工作的人带来的一些机会。