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<p>The Department has not issued guidance in the procedure for using rape kits on
children under 16 and the gender of the medical professional using that rape kit.
The Government supported the recommendation made by the independent review by Baroness
Stern into how rape complaints are handled by public authorities that there should
be the choice of a male or female forensic physician to undertake the examination.
Medical professionals should be sufficiently trained and clinically supervised to
comply with guidance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Faculty
of Forensic and Legal Medicine.</p>
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