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The Children and Young Persons Act: Child deaths

The Children and Young Persons Act, which was granted Royal Assent on 13 November 2008, provides the necessary legislative support to improve the care system for children and young people in England.

It underpins the Care Matters White Paper, Care matters: Time for change (June 2007), and the implementation plan, Care matters: Time to deliver for children in care (March 2008).

Reporting on child deaths: Points of note

Registrars of births and deaths are required to supply, to Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs), information about the deaths of persons aged under under-18 for which they have:

• registered or re-registered the death;
• corrected or updated a death entry relating to someone under the age of 18 at the time of death, regardless of when it was registered;
• issued a Certificate of No Liability to Register where it appears that the deceased was, or may have been, under the age of 18 at the time of death.

The information is required to be sent no later than seven days from the date of registration, the date of making the correction or update, or the date of issuing the Certificate of No Liability as appropriate.

In addition, The Registrar General has the power to supply information to the Secretary of State and to Welsh ministers for research purposes. Such information can be disclosed by them to an LSCB for the purposes of its functions.

In support of these new responsibilities, it is a statutory requirement that each LSCB must make arrangements for the receipt of notifications from registrars and to publish these arrangements. 

The name and email address for the designated person in each LSCB to whom child-death notifications should be sent is available here.

The Coroners (Amendment) Rules 2008 also places a duty on coroners to inform the LSCB for the area in which the child died of the fact of an inquest or post mortem. Therefore it is also necessary for coroners to have access to this LSCB list of designated persons. 

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Last updated on 28/10/2009