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eCDOP was initiated in 2015 by Sue Gower, programme manager at Kent Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB), who felt frustrated that the sluggishness and inefficiency of recording and reviewing under-18 deaths was compromising the board's ability to provide a timely, multi-agency response to fatal incidents and the issues they raised. Kent LSCB enlisted technology firm QES to develop an IT solution, £25,000 being provided by the board and seven clinical commissioning groups.
eCDOP, which went live in September 2015, electronically mirrors the "child death overview" process that LSCBs are responsible for, from initial notification of a death, to sign-off by the child death overview panel (CDOP) following review. "Its strength is that it mirrors exactly what we were doing manually," says Gower, eCDOP co-ordinator. "So nobody's doing anything different."
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