CYP Now - Safer sleep messages needed to prevent more sudden infant deaths, review says

Co-sleeping is a major risk factor for childen living in deprived families who are more likely to experience a sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) than wealthier peers, a safeguarding review has found.

Children from more deprived families are more at risk from SUDI than their wealthier peers, a new review says. Picture: Adobe Stock

In its latest report, Out of routine: a review of sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) in families where the children are considered at risk of significant harm, the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel says many of these children are also considered at significant risk of harm.

Of 568 serious incidents reported between June 2018 and August 2019, 40 involved infants who had died suddenly and unexpectedly, the majority of which involved babies under three months old.

Around half of the infants that died were male (53 per cent) with a peak in deaths for those children aged one month (15 cases).

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