- Advanced/Update *3 hours CPD
This course is aimed at all practitioners working in the Family Courts and all those concerned with Child Protection and the prevention of childhood injury and death.
The Children Act 2004 implemented the recommendations of the Kennedy Report and made substantial changes to the way in which unexpected child deaths are managed and investigated and was fully implemented in April 2008.
These changes have had a significant impact on the management, conduct and collection of information in care cases where there has been the death of a child.
The course will include:-
- Immediate response to unexpected deaths in childhood
- The roles of Police, Coroner, Paediatricians and other agencies
- The needs of families and provision of support after childhood death
- Multi-agency review – a process not an event
- "Suspicious” circumstances of death
- Death-scene investigation – forensic and psychological
- Assessing the causes, contributory factors and associated factors for unexpected childhood death
- The role of the Local Safeguarding Children Board