Child Abuse Expert Hired For Master Class After Speech

AN American academic gave such a moving speech on child protection to health bosses that he was invited to hold a master class in Edinburgh.

Dr Bruce Perry from the Child Trauma Academy in Texas held a conference recently on child protection issues.

He so impressed NHS Lothian chief executive James Barbour that he was invited to address health and social care workers across the city recently.

Mr Barbour said: “His talk on the effect of child abuse on child development was enormously influential on the audience.

“As a consequence, we invited Dr Perry to come back to Edinburgh to host a master class for an invited group. Feedback suggests the event was a huge success.”