Part 1: Children Chapter 2: Safeguarding of children Section 27: Combining child death review partner areas and delegating functions
This section adds a new section 16P into the Children Act 2004. References to subsections below are to subsections in that new section.
	Subsection (1) enables the child death review partners for two or more local authority areas in England to agree that their areas are treated as a single area for the purposes of sections 16M to 16O and subsections (3) and (4) of this new section 16P.
	Subsection (2) provides that references in sections 16M to 16O and subsections (3) and (4) of this section to a ‘local authority area’ are to be read in accordance with any such agreement under subsection (1) of this new section 16P.
	Subsection (3) provides that where child death review partners for two or more local authority areas have agreed their areas are to be treated as a single area for the purposes of sections 16M to 16Oand subsections (3) and (4) of this new section 16P, those authorities may arrange for one of them to carry out functions under sections 16M to 16O on behalf of the other.
	Subsection (4) allows clinical commissioning groups, where one clinical commissioning group is a safeguarding partner for the same local authority area as another clinical commissioning group, to arrange for one of them to carry out functions under sections 16M to 16O on behalf of the other.