The purpose of the report is to seek approval of a Partnership Agreement for the Child Death Review Service.

Recent changes in legislation sets out how local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are required to come together as the Child Death Review (CDR) Partners. Under the new legislation, partners must make arrangements to review every death of a child normally resident in the local area. The CDR systems are required to encompass operational footprints with a minimum case review level of 60 cases per annum.

To achieve this larger footprint, a Child Death Review partnership will be established between Clinical Commissioning Group and the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham, Waltham Forest and City and Hackney. The London Borough of Newham will act as a ‘hub’ hosting a central coordination function on behalf of the other partners. This means that the London Borough of Newham will be undertaking some statutory functions on behalf of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in order to be compliant with the changes in legislation. This will be underpinned by a Partnership Agreement between all the partners.