How can we help?

Our shared task

None of us are fully content with the work that we are doing and the Child Death Review services we offer our communities. We all need to be working earlier, more effectively and more closely with our communities and our teams to drive child death prevention.

In our most recent regional Deep Dive Review, we found that CDR professionals widely share the frustration that the current system is simply not delivering to its full potential. As one recent client remarked:

“We have lost our way. We aren’t working well enough to change outcomes for kids. That’s just an awful thing to admit, but it’s true.”

Currently, CDR is known to be underfunded, undervalued, riddled with health disparities, lacking, and not responsive enough to children, family, and professional needs. To improve our care systems, we must make CDR systems more cohesive and robust, tracking impacts, reporting and briefing issues and trends. Above all, we must centre the children, parents, carers and communities we are here to serve.

We want to support you to do the best possible work you can with the resources available to you. We aim to bring out the best in the collaborative practice, evidence-based techniques, and openness, providing high-quality low-cost solutions to the tremendous problems you face.

To support our common goal, we aim to refresh our resources for the communities of professional practice we are proud to be a part of.

Our focus: babies, children, and young people

From the Healthy Child Programme and Safeguarding, Child Death Review, multi-agency partnership working, impactful prevention works, coherent strategies that really deliver... this stuff matters. Getting it right makes the difference.

Our areas of interest include:

■ The Healthy Child Programme

■ Child Death Review Systems

■ The LeDeR Programme

■ Children’s and Adults’ Safeguarding

■ Special Educational Needs And Disabilities (SEND)

■ 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

In the CDR world, we have a phrase: Your eyes get accustomed to the darkness… you both get used to seeing things that most people – and wider society – don’t tend to see. In that, you see the strengths and the weaknesses, the sorrow and the hope, the grief, strength, and determination inherent to the CDR agenda.

However, there’s also a risk that what we are used to inures us to the possibility of change, the chance to review what we are doing, and how we are supporting the bereaved and the professionals working to make sense of child death reviews.

We know what matters to you and we know how to understand the pathways and the processes; we know how to swim in the data and understand what is possible for us to do when we seek to change the world.

If you think we can help you and your community, get in touch at info@ddconsultancyservices.com