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24.—(1) Where a coroner decides to conduct an investigation into a death under section 1 or directs that a post-mortem examination should be made under section 14, and the coroner believes the deceased was under the age of 18, the coroner must notify the appropriate Local Safeguarding Children Board within 3 days of making the decision or direction.
(2) A coroner must provide all information to the appropriate Local Safeguarding Children Board.
(3) In this regulation—
“the appropriate Local Safeguarding Children Board” means the Board established under section 13(1) or 31(1) of the Children Act 2004(1) within whose area the deceased died or within whose area the body was found; and
“information” means any information that is—
held by the coroner for the purposes of an investigation under Part 1 of the 2009 Act; and
relates to the death of a person who was or may have been under the age of 18 at the time of death.
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