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Child death overview panels are spending as little as five minutes reviewing each case as many struggle to cope with the workload, a study funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) has found.
The panels were set up across England in April by local safeguarding children's boards to review cases of unexpected child deaths. Their remit includes looking at lessons to be learned, patterns of child death and promotional work to prevent such deaths.
However, a study into the "early starter" panels that were set up before April found that for many "it was not possible to review all deaths in great depth". Although government guidance on the work of the panels said all child deaths should be reviewed, panels found they had particular difficulty finding out about older adolescent deaths.
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