Part 2

Children’s services in England

Child death review partners for local authority areas

Child death reviews
16M
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.
S. 16M and cross-heading inserted (29.6.2018) by Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16), ss. 24, 70(2); S.I. 2018/497, reg. 3(m)