Pediatric Reception Unit for Children in Danger

The UAPED allows an integrated approach, centered on the child by simultaneously evoking in constant care: protection, care and medicolegal constraints.

In practice, in complementarity with the actors already involved in the territory, the UAPED can respond to the requests of all the care services of the Caen University Hospital welcoming minors, of any hospital or extra-hospital health professional, of the institutions , schools, families (…) who wonder about a situation of minors in danger.

This offer is graduated: it can range from simple telephone advice, to the rereading of a written document, a clinical opinion, a consultation or the setting up of hospitalization in a pediatric unit.

With the practitioners of the units requesting the UAPED, the care pathways for children and adolescents in danger are built in consultation within the establishment.

The resources allocated to the UAPED of the Caen University Hospital were dedicated to the identification and care process of child victims.

The future challenge is to bring together the modalities and stakeholders of the UAPED in a local unit for children and adolescents in danger, and to build fluid operational connections between the actors involved in health and the judicial response in the same place in order to implement a protected approach in a dedicated pediatric place.