National Call for Research Proposals in Paediatric Neuroscience

BACCH e-News : December 2010

Policy Healthy Lives, Healthy People The White Paper was published on 30 November and can be downloaded here.

The Foundation Years: preventing poor children becoming poor adults The report of the Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances by Frank Fields MP was published on 3 December and can be downloaded here.

New NICE Guidance The following guidance has recently been published: . NICE Looked After Children & Young People . NICE Preventing unintentional injuries in the home among children and young people aged under 15: providing safety equipment and home risk assessments . NICE Preventing unintentional injuries among children and young people aged under 15: road design and modification . NICE Sedation in children and young people

Research Paul Polani Prize 2011 BACD & RCPCH are calling for applications to the 2011 Paul Polani Prize, which supports research and innovation in paediatric neurodisability in the UK. Up to £7,500 is available to enable teams to pilot, undertake, or complete research projects based in paediatric neurodisability. Applications may be from teams or individuals (of any discipline). This is your opportunity to start or finish that important piece of research to make a difference for your service and others. The deadline for application submission is noon, Monday 17 January 2011. For more information visit http://www.bacdis.org.uk/awards/

Epilepsy12 National Audit The latest news from the Epilepsy12 project is available to download here.

National call for research proposals in paediatric neuroscience For the first time, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity is making up to £1 million available for applications to fund research in paediatric neuroscience, through a national call open to research centres across the UK. Applications should be for no more than £300,000, and projects no longer than three years in duration. The deadline for submitting completed applications is 5pm, Tuesday 15 March 2011. It is anticipated that funding will be made available to successful applicants from August 2011. For further information, please visit the charity’s website at www.gosh.org/neuroscience. Projects should focus on either: . discovering the origin of neurological diseases, or; . pioneering and testing new diagnostics, therapies, treatments and care pathways for children affected by a neurological disease.

Calling all BACCH members - Last opportunity to contribute to the Clonidine survey!! What’s your opinion on CLONIDINE? Useless? Essential? Never thought about it? Please complete this short survey. EVEN IF YOU DO NOT prescribe Clonidine we would like to know what you think. This survey should take no longer than 8 or 9 minutes to complete. To access, please click on the following link, or cut and paste the address into your browser http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5YXZDYK. We very much appreciate your help. Thank you! Dr Rebecca Macleod, ST6 Community Paediatrics, St George's Hospital, London Dr Daphne Keen, Consultant Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician, St George's Hospital, London Dr Paul Gringras, Consultant Neurodisability Paediatrician, Evelina Children's Hospital, London

Training Maintaining and Updating Competences (MaUC) MaUC was launched on 14 December by Anne Milton MP and is aimed at Consultant doctors and career grade Paediatricians. The module is made up of seven case-based learning sessions that cover the knowledge and competencies required for Level 3 Safeguarding. Those participating in this training should complete the introductory session which allows them to design an ongoing training programme suitable to their needs. This may involve a mixture of further sessions from the Maintaining and Updating Competences programme, face-to- face learning and supervision, local and national courses. Click here to access MaUC.

Meetings/Events Regional Meetings - 10 February – BACCH South West (save the date – more information soon!)

Affiliate Group Meetings 18 January CPSIG Study Day Recognising and Responding to Neglect of Children and Young People (London)

27-28 January BPMHG 26th Annual Winter Meeting (Northampton)

28 January BAPA Annual Conference (London)

4 March BACD Annual Scientific Meeting Autism Spectrum Disorder, co-morbidities and outcome (Derby) Abstract Deadline – 17 January

25 March SACCH Annual Conference “ Ears tae us; wha's like us?" Paediatricians in Audiology: a Scottish perspective (Perth) Abstract Deadline – 18 February

For a comprehensive listing of events relating to Community Child Health, visit our conference directory.

Finally, please note that the BACCH office will be closed from 23 December until 4 January. We’d like to wish our members a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!