Waltham Forest Safeguarding Children Board (WFSCB)

Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 sets out requirements for “child death review partners” (consisting of local authorities and any clinical commissioning groups for the local area). This is to make arrangements to review child deaths through a specific process.  

The child death review reflects in detail on the history of the involvement of the different agencies across all sectors with every child death. It aims to consider any lessons to be learned, issues to be addressed, or opportunities for improving services. Below are some useful links: 

• The statutory child death process
• Register a death as a parent
• Report a child death as a practitioner 
• Messages and learning from Child Death Overview Panels between April 2024 – June 2024
• Information for parents and carers about the Child Death Review Process

Strategic Partnership Boards has the most recent summary of the Child Death Review annual report.