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After section 16L of the Children Act 2004 (inserted by section 23 of this Act) insert—
(1)The child death review partners for a local authority area in England must make arrangements for the review of each death of a child normally resident in the area.
(2)The child death review partners may also, if they consider it appropriate, make arrangements for the review of a death in their area of a child not normally resident there.
(3)The child death review partners must make arrangements for the analysis of information about deaths reviewed under this section.
(4)The purposes of a review or analysis under this section are—
(a)to identify any matters relating to the death or deaths that are relevant to the welfare of children in the area or to public health and safety, and
(b)to consider whether it would be appropriate for anyone to take action in relation to any matters identified.
(5)Where the child death review partners consider that it would be appropriate for a person to take action as mentioned in subsection (4)(b), they must inform that person.
(6)The child death review partners for a local authority area in England must, at such intervals as they consider appropriate, prepare and publish a report on—
(a)what they have done as a result of the arrangements under this section, and
(b)how effective the arrangements have been in practice.”
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