More About Dan Devitt
Working across service delivery, commissioning and assurance roles Dan has developed a keen awareness of the complexity and necessities of getting services right for Babies Children and Young People and the families, communities and places they come from. Particular areas of interest include:
■ The Healthy Child Programme
■ Child Death Review Systems
■ The Leder Programme
■ Childrens and Adults Safeguarding
■ Special Educational Needs And Disabilities
■ Domestic Abuse
■ Public Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
■ Creative Health and Wellbeing
■ The Health Promoting Hospitals Programme
■ Service Commissioning, Development and Transformation
■ Complex Adaptive Systems and Review
With a track record encompassing Pan London and National Child Death Review processes he has been honoured to work alongside NHS clinical services, Social Care, Police and Coronial colleagues in developing and supporting local Child Death Review systems and Child Death Overview Panels and local area Safeguarding Boards.
He recently completed a programme of work for the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in Wales, focussing on Public Health Strategy, Child Death Review and other priority workstreams.
Dan has established the DD Consultancy to help spread awareness and offer support to ensuring that Babies Children and Young People, and provide experience, insight and expertise for local health and social care and education partnerships to understand how they can better meet the needs of Babies, Children, Young People, Parents, Carers and families.
Dan is delighted to be working with the rest of the DDCS team and is working with colleagues across the UK to get it right of Babies, Children and Young People. He provides mentoring and coaching support to individuals working across a range of health and social care environments.
He is honoured to be a Trustee of The Lullaby Trust and is the Chair of the Services Committee.
He is based in London and works wherever he can be of benefit to local practice. He is preparing to pursue a PHD study focussing on NHS Policy and Service responses to Child Death Review.
Select Bibliography of contributions:
Learning-disability-mortality-review-programme (HQIP LeDeR 2015)
A London Suicide Prevention Model (London Councils 2018)
Statutory guidance for Child Death Review HM Gov 2018
Gathering feedback from families and carers when a child or young person dies (HLP 2019)
The Impact of Covid 19 on London’s Children and Young People PHE 2021)
Consanguinity-in-CDRM and-CDOP-reviews NCMD 2023
East Sussex County Council Creative Health Position Paper 2023
