£15.00
A digital download from this Lunch and Learn session.
The seminar will offer a structured opportunity to critically evaluate the widespread, increasingly controversial practice of medically unnecessary penile circumcision of children. Current medical ethical principles, professional guidance and child safeguarding practice as applied to this and to other forms of medically unnecessary genital surgery on children will be explored.
Following an initial outline of the current situation including regulatory guidance, the evidence base and some of the main areas of controversy, participants will be encouraged to participate in a focussed discussion about how to bring all forms of medically unnecessary genital cutting of children into a consistent, practical, ethical and safeguarding framework. Discussion will encompass the broad themes of medical ethics, the law, safeguarding norms, community, religion and culture.Â
The challenges and practicalities of maintaining or changing how decisions around the practice of medically unnecessary penile circumcision are made will be discussed. Â
About the video:
Video length: 129 minutes
Featuring: Dr Antony Lempert and Dr Alejandro Sanchez, AoCPP staff and event delegates.
It has improved my knowledge and understanding about the range of harms caused to children and their impact as I have been able to network with a wide range of experts from the UK and beyond. There is no other multidisciplinary association for child protection professionals focused on learning to support and improve practice and policy
