Working Ethos
We are committed to being an anti-racist, disability-confident, queer and trans-inclusive and class-conscious organisation, recognising current systemic health disparities affecting our most socially vulnerable groups.
All families, children, and young people deserve the best, most culturally competent and compassionate care, end-of-life services, and bereavement support available. We know that the most important challenge we face is to get it right for the Babies, Children and Young People in our communities. If we can change the narrative on how we support them, if we can help drive the prevention of child death and work across safeguarding and public health systems, we can bring lasting positive change for everyone.
Our Focus
We primarily work on the CYP agenda – but can support you across all age ranges and most programme areas in public health improvement.
Child Death Review (CDR) Systems
A key area of our work is Child Death Review and the prevention– where possible– of future deaths and the improvement of bereavement support offers for those that need it.
We want to help stop Babies, Children and Young People dying earlier than they should. When we can’t prevent their deaths, we want health and care systems to provide effective support to the bereaved.
We want to help you build a system and a society that is compassionate at its heart, serves the community, and works hard to support and strengthen those who work to deliver that service.
We want to help you with bereavement; to understand how important it is for us all to be able to discuss death, grief and cope with child death as professionals working with families, carers, and the wider local, regional, and national systems of professionals.
We work with CDOPs and local partners to improve awareness and effectiveness of local CDR systems and aim to help you prevent child death in your area.
All our efforts are dedicated to the deceased and bereaved, and those that seek to support them.
Public Health Strategy, Programmes and Improvement
We work across a wide range of public health priorities that impact the communities we live in, come from, and seek to serve.
We work with local systems and services to support improvement and impacts of local public health and care services across a wide range of agendas; ranging from creative health, mental and physical health and wellbeing programmes, vulnerable communities, and core public health services including the Healthy Child Programme, Drugs and Alcohol, and Suicide Prevention.
Through working to tackle health inequalities in a holistic manner we aim to support you to tackle the worsening health outcomes across our communities and help to build communities of practice and networks of support.
We want to work with you.
We want to help build a world together where we are putting people first and doing everything, we can, to improve the quality of our services.
Our energy is focused on driving down health inequalities and tackling the tragedies that happen when CYP fall between the cracks. Within the environment and practices of CDR, we are especially concerned with safeguarding, population health management, and suicide prevention.
From task and finish support to targeted ongoing programme delivery we aim to help you with an affordable, effective and responsive support offer.
We do a lot of work for free.
Yes. You read that correctly.
We do a lot of our work for free, to help support regions and systems where there simply aren’t the resources to commission specific support. With a range of webinars, videos and podcasts, summaries, briefings and other resources, you will find a range of tools and assets that can help you in your day-to-day work.
We hope you will find this and the future publications we seek to provide to be useful.
If you think we can help you, if you want to think about commissioning us, working with us, or think there’s something we should be creating that can help the system, we want to hear from you.
Drop us a line at info@ddconsultancyservices.com
