Notification to the Designated Paediatrician for Unexpected Deaths in Childhood and the Lscb

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

NOTIFICATION TO THE DESIGNATED PAEDIATRICIAN FOR UNEXPECTED DEATHS IN CHILDHOOD AND THE LSCB

OF A CHILD’S DEATH

Please see Working Together to Safeguard Children (DfES, 2006 - WT) chapter 7, which sets out a statutory requirement for the Local Safeguarding Children Board to review the deaths of all children under the age of 18 years.

Section 7.51 (WT) states that the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) should be informed of all deaths of children normally resident in the LSCB’s geographical area. The designated paediatrician for unexpected deaths in childhood (designated paediatrician) or delegate will usually do this and should be notified of all child deaths in the area or of children usually resident in the LSCB area but who die in another area.

The information should be treated in strictest confidence.

Designated doctors:
Dr Justin Daniels
Consultant Paediatrician
North Middlesex Hospital / Tel:020 8887 2000 (switchboard)
Fax:020 8887 9321
Email:
Dr Austin Isaacs
Consultant Paediatrician
Barnet Hospital / Tel:0845 111 4000 (switchboard)
Fax:020 8 216 5410
Email:
Single Point of Contact (SPOC)
Safeguarding Office (temporary)
Or Jean Rogers, SPOC Administrator / Tel:020 8702 5600
Email:

The attached Notification form should be completed as fully as possible and sent the same day to the Single Point of Contact). For deaths that occur after 5pm, at weekends or on bank holidays, the written Notification form should be sent by 10am the next working day.

Parental consent is not required for this information to be passed to the designated paediatrician / LSCB SPOC.

Parents will be notified about the child death procedures by the Chair of the Child Death Overview Panel.

INITIAL NOTIFICATION OF

THE DEATH OF A CHILD

To be completed as fully as possible withinthe hour.

DO NOT DELAY.

To: Single Point of Contact (SPOC), Safeguarding Office (temporary) or SPOC Administrator, Jean Rogers at secure e-mail address:

Cc: Designated Paediatrician for unexpected deaths in childhood,

Enfield Safeguarding Children Board

PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT CLEARLY IN BLOCK LETTERS

1 / Initial notification Unique Reference No. (to be allocated by SPOC) / YE _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _
2 / Date / time of notification
3 / Name and title / role of caller
4 / Caller contact number
5 / First and other names of child
6 / Family nameof child
7 / Date of birth of child
8 / Sex of child
9 / Ethnicity of child
10 / Immigration status
11 / Home address of child
12 / Postcode of child’s home address
13 / Carer of child at time of death
14 / Name/s of persons with parental responsibility i.e. mother, father or other (state relationship)
Date of birth (if known)
15 / Other significant family members / members of household
16 / Other children in household or affected by the death (including children potentially at risk of harm) / Names / Age / date of birth if known
17 / Date and time of death
18 / Place / locality of death
19 / Consultant in charge of child’s care at time of death
(include contact details)
20 / Name and contact details of person certifying death
21 / Summary description of the circumstances of the death
22 / Is this an unexpected death?
i.e. not expected in the previous 24 hours / YES / NO
23 / GP’s name and address
24 / Has this case been referred to the Coroner?
25 / Other agencies to whom child is known
26 / Signature / name of caller
(Sign and PRINT)
27 / Date

The fax should be marked STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

Revised 25.3.14