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Learning About Neglect Event Series – Webinar 6 – Exploring the complexities and challenges of dental neglect for children and young people

Published: 7 October 2024

CPCScotland, with support from CELCIS and the Scottish Government, is promoting a new series of free webinars, focusing on neglect for child protection leaders and practitioners across Scotland.

In this 6th webinar of the series focusses on Exploring the Complexities and Challenges of Dental Neglect for Children and Young People.

The webinar explores some of the professional dilemmas, the preventative approaches, and how we can take a trauma-informed approach to facilitating access to treatment and interventions. The webinar also discuss dental neglect and the impact it has the wider context and concerns that services may have regarding a child.

In this webinar you will hear from Dr Christine Park, a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant for Paediatric Dentistry at Glasgow Dental Hospital. Additional contributors include NHS Education Scotland’s Dr Mairi Albiston, a clinical psychologist, Dr Sally Jowett, a Principal Educator who specialises in transforming psychological trauma and Laura Wright, Oral Health Practitioner, Childsmile Inverclyde.