Multi-agency response to sudden unexplained child death or critical childhood Illness

The purpose of this guideline is to ensure Dumfries and Galloway have processes in place which outline and navigate all stages of the child death review process; from notification, to carrying out the review, to sharing the learning locally and nationally.

Dumfries and Galloway drive forward a multi-disciplinary and multi- agency approach to CDRs, focused on using evidence to deliver change, and ultimately aim to reduce deaths and harm to children and young people. All agencies are committed to ensuring the death of every child and young person is reviewed to an agreed minimum standard.

Whilst agencies are able to establish their own structure and process for reviewing the deaths of children and young people, it’s important that our multi-agency local process aligns to the national guidance, to enable good practice and lessons to be reflected and shared at a national level.

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