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BOOK REVIEW
Looking after children in primary care: a companion to the Children’s National Service Framework
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Edited by Ruth Chambers, Kirsty Licence. Oxford: Radcliffe, 2005, £24.95, pp 224. ISBN 1 85775 888 9

The recently published leading article on the National Service Framework (NSF) in Archives of Disease in Childhood by our ex-president of this college1 and the issues such as child poverty, the phenomenal increase in the number of sexually transmitted diseases, teenage pregnancies, and campaigns such as Jamie Oliver’s school dinners have highlighted child health issues. The government acknowledged that our youngsters are not just simply “little adults” by producing the Children’s National Service Framework in 2004. Further government initiatives to …