A report of the safety of NHS care for children found that 33 child deaths contained indicators of avoidable factors where an unexpected or unintended incident occurred.
The same was true in the cases of 39 babies that died at under a month old.
The Review of Patient Safety for Children and Young People, published by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), found there were more than 61,000 incidents reported to the NPSA involving under-18s between October 2007 and September 2008.
Around a quarter of the incidents were the result of misuse of medication, including situations in which a wrongly placed decimal point led to children receiving 10 times the dose intended.
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