The subject I have been asked to put before you today is a discussion of the relation between Child Psychiatry and Children’s Medicine. I submit that this is a particularly fortunate moment for such a consideration. The publication of the white paper last weekend confronts us with the reality of imminent changes in the conditions of our professional work, but gives at the same time a latent period before the proposals become law when we can put forward suggestions for the moulding of the proposals within the general framework of the bill.