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Course aim

To equip paediatricians with the knowledge and skills required to fulfil their professional duties when a child dies, to contribute to learning from child deaths and to support bereaved families.

Course description

In 2018 The Child Death Review (CDR) Statutory and Operation guidance, mandates that all child deaths have detailed multi-agency review. This aims to identify full causes of death including potentially modifiable factors, learning from deaths to improve services and prevent future deaths. Support for bereaved parents is a key element of CDR, their needs are at the heart of the process. 

This comprehensive course will give paediatricians a good understanding of what to do when a child dies and how to talk to families.

During the day, delegates will learn about how to contribute to and lead CDR meetings, their statutory responsibilities, those of other professionals such as police and coroners, and how to involve and support families. It will also cover which deaths need a JAR and how to start this process in the Emergency Department.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, you will:

1. Understand the context of child deaths in the UK
2. Be aware of the statutory child death review process and the role/s of paediatricians.
3. Recognise the importance of working as part of a multi-agency team, including as part of a joint agency response (JAR)
4. Know where to find information on Kennedy sampling
5. Be confident in hosting a child death review meeting (CDRM)
6. Be familiar with investigating and learning from child deaths – locally, regionally and nationally
7. Understand the role of Key Workers, and how to work together to support bereaved families

Target audience

Paediatric resident doctors, paediatric consultants, SAS doctors

(Please note: The 2018 CDR Statutory Guidance applies to England only)

Venue

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health offices, London

Our office is in a vibrant area of central London. We are within walking distance from King’s Cross and Euston rail stations, and close to Holborn, Chancery Lane and other tube stations. See more on how to get to us

Course lead

Dr Jamie Carter, MBBS, BSc, DTM & H, FRCPCH, LFFLM is a Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Lecturer at BSMS and is the Designated Doctor for Child Protection and Designated Paediatrician for Child Death for Sussex. 

Jamie is a founding member of the ACDRP executive committee and leads their training and conferences programme; he has been a Designated Paediatrician for Child Deaths for Sussex for the last 8 years and in the past has completed a Fellowship in the Child Protection Unit at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Australia Jamie has developed and delivered training on a number of topics, abusive head trauma in particular, to a wide range of audiences as well as working as an expert witness in the area of child protection (male sexual abuse signs). Jamie was an Assistant Child Protection Officer with the remit of overseeing and delivering Education in Safeguarding and Child Protection at the RCPCH until 2018, leading the development of the RCPCH Forensic Sexual Assault Best Practice Course and running the FASD course.