The interim findings of the University of Warwick study, which examined nine pilot child death review panels, found that many of the deaths investigated by researchers could have been avoided.
Revealing the initial results to CYP Now, Peter Sidebotham, the research team's principal investigator, said: "From the panel meetings we attended there were a total of 24 cases reviewed and in a significant proportion of these the teams were identifying issues that could have indicated avoidable factors in the child or young person, parents, environment or service provision."
Sidebotham said factors included actions a parent or professional could have done differently in the run-up to the child's death.
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