Part 1: Children Chapter 2: Safeguarding of children Section 24: Child death reviews
This section adds a new section 16M into the Children Act 2004. References to subsections below are to subsections in that new section.
	Subsection (1) sets out the requirement on child death review partners for a local authority area in England to make arrangements for the review of each death of a child normally resident in the area.
	Subsection (2) allows the child death review partners, if they consider it appropriate, to make arrangements for the review of a death in their area of a child not normally resident there.
	Subsection (3) provides for the partners to make arrangements for the analysis of information about deaths reviewed under section 16M.
	Subsection (4) explains that the purpose a review or the analysis is:
to identify any matters relating to the death or deaths generally, that are relevant to the welfare of children in the area or to public health and safety; and
to consider whether it would be appropriate for anyone to take action in relation to any matters identified.
	Subsection (5) sets out the requirement on child death review partners, where they consider it would be appropriate for a person to take action mentioned in subsection 4(b), to inform that person.
	Subsection (6) specifies that the child death review partners must, at such intervals as they consider appropriate, prepare and publish a report on:
what they have done as a result of the arrangements under this section; and
how effective the arrangements have been in practice.