CYP Now - How Kent LSCB developed a national solution for recording child deaths

A locally-developed digital solution for recording child deaths has been adopted nationally, with hopes that it will help prevent deaths in the future.

The eCDOP (child death overview panel) was launched by Kent Safeguarding Children's Board (SCB) in 2015, to replace the county's outdated and insecure manual system.

Local data is being fed into National Child Mortality Database (NCMD), which launched on 1 April, linking from local eCDOP systems.

Kent's previous method, which involved gathering information about more than 100 child deaths in Kent each year by fax, email and post, led to some deaths going unrecorded for months, and data being left unprotected.

Sue Gower, its programme development officer, explained that the idea for eCDOP began in 2014 due to concerns that the recording and reviewing system was "administratively burdensome and inefficient".

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