Seminar to probe non-accidental head injuries in babies

Social workers believe a preventative programme should be introduced to lower the incidents of non-accidental head injuries in babies, with one of the country’s leading consultant paediatricians stating “prevention is better than cure”.

Pat Kelleher, social work team leader at the South Lee social work department in Cork said the issue of babies being injured in the home was “not in the public consciousness”.

Mr Kelleher and Alf Nicholson, a paediatrician in Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin, are among the speakers at a conference this week on non-accidental head injury in babies.