In a survey of its members, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) found that 79 per cent of respondents supported the ‘outright withdrawal’ of the Bill as opposed to a campaign for further amendments. 
RCPCH president, Professor Terence Stephenson, said, ‘Although we have secured some changes – such as the Children’s Forum – it’s our membership’s views that these do not go far enough.’
The Children and Young People's Health Outcomes Forum, co-chaired by RCPCH fellow professor Ian Lewis, and including a number of RCPCH members, was set up as an independent body comprising experts from across the charitable, healthcare and local government sectors to advise the Government.
It has been liaising with the government over the bill but the RCPCH remain concerned.
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