Child Death Reviews: year ending 31 March 2018

• At the time of death, (62%) of the children in ‘Other private residence’ had their deaths assessed as having modifiable factors.

• Deaths categorised as ‘Sudden unexpected, unexplained death’ had the highest proportion (73%) of deaths identified as having modifiable factors whilst ‘Malignancy’ had the least proportion (4%).

Figure 3: Top five categories of death where modifiable factors were identified (%) in the year ending 31 March 2018