Child death review partners for local authority areas

16MChild death reviews

1

The child death review partners for a local authority area in England must make arrangements for the review of each death of a child normally resident in the area.

2

The child death review partners may also, if they consider it appropriate, make arrangements for the review of a death in their area of a child not normally resident there.

3

The child death review partners must make arrangements for the analysis of information about deaths reviewed under this section.

4

The purposes of a review or analysis under this section are—

a

to identify any matters relating to the death or deaths that are relevant to the welfare of children in the area or to public health and safety, and

b

to consider whether it would be appropriate for anyone to take action in relation to any matters identified.

5

Where the child death review partners consider that it would be appropriate for a person to take action as mentioned in subsection (4)(b), they must inform that person.

6

The child death review partners for a local authority area in England must, at such intervals as they consider appropriate, prepare and publish a report on—

a

what they have done as a result of the arrangements under this section, and

b

how effective the arrangements have been in practice.