HC Deb 28 February 2003 vol 400 cc762-3W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will establish independent child death review teams to deal with child deaths from abuse and neglect; [98485]

(2) what plans the Government has to set up child safeguarding teams to ensure that professionals involved in the care and protection of children can work together more effectively on the ground. [98484]

Hilary Benn

The Victoria Climbié Inquiry report, published on 28 January 2003, contained 108 recommendations, including several recommendations relating to local and national structures for the provision of children's services and arrangements for child death reviews (referred to in Government guidance as serious case reviews).

We are currently studying the report's 108 recommendations with care, and will make our substantive response to the report as part of the Green Paper on Children at Risk, which will be published later in the spring.