The three-day course will cater for a range of professionals includingsocial workers, paediatricians and the police. Dr Peter Sidebottom, aconsultant paediatrician and expert in sudden infant deaths at theUniversity of Warwick, will run the course.
Joyce Epstein, director of the Foundation for the Study of InfantDeaths, said though services should be encouraged to follow the nationalprotocol on cot deaths, professionals often lacked the training andconfidence to carry out investigations.
The protocol, which is likely to be part of the Working Togetherguidance due out this spring, requires a multi-agency approach involvingthe GP, health visitor, pathologist, the police, coroner and, whereappropriate, a midwife.
- See Analysis, p12.
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