Moved by
Lord Nash
122: After Clause 14, insert the following new Clause—
“Information
After section 16M of the Children Act 2004 (inserted by section (Child death reviews) of this Act) insert—
“16N Information
(1) Any of the child death review partners for a local authority area in England may, for the purpose of enabling or assisting the performance of functions conferred by section 16M, request a person or body to provide information specified in the request to—
(a) the child death review partner or any other child death review partner for the area, or
(b) another person or body.
(2) The person or body to whom a request under this section is made must comply with the request.
(3) The child death review partner that made the request may enforce the duty under subsection (2) against the person or body by making an application to the High Court or the county court for an injunction.
(4) The information may be used by the person or body to whom it is provided only for the purpose mentioned in subsection (1).””
123: After Clause 14, insert the following new Clause—
“Funding
After section 16N of the Children Act 2004 (inserted by section (Information) of this Act) insert—
“16O Funding
(1) The child death review partners for a local authority area in England may make payments towards expenditure incurred in connection with arrangements under section 16M—
(a) by making payments directly, or
(b) by contributing to a fund out of which payments may be made.
(2) The child death review partners for a local authority area in England may provide staff, goods, services, accommodation or other resources to any person for purposes connected with arrangements under section 16M.””
124: After Clause 14, insert the following new Clause—
“Combining child death review partner areas and delegating functions
After section 16O of the Children Act 2004 (inserted by section (Funding) of this Act) insert—
“16P Combining child death review partner areas and delegating functions
(1) The child death review partners for two or more local authority areas in England may agree that their areas are to be treated as a single area for the purposes of sections 16M to 16O and subsections (3) and (4) of this section.
(2) References in sections 16M to 16O and in subsections (3) and (4) of this section to a local authority area are to be read in accordance with any agreement under subsection (1).
(3) Where a local authority is a child death review partner for the same local authority area as another local authority (as a result of an agreement under subsection (1)), the authorities may arrange for one of them to carry out functions under sections 16M to 16O on behalf of the other.
(4) Where a clinical commissioning group is a child death review partner for the same local authority area as another clinical commissioning group, the groups may arrange for one of them to carry out functions under sections 16M to 16O on behalf of the other.””
125: After Clause 14, insert the following new Clause—
“Guidance and interpretation
After section 16P of the Children Act 2004 (inserted by section (Combining child death review partner areas and delegating functions) of this Act) insert—
“16Q Guidance and interpretation
(1) The child death review partners for a local authority area in England must have regard to any guidance given by the Secretary of State in connection with functions conferred on them by sections 16M to 16P.
(2) In this section and sections 16M to 16P “child death review partners”, in relation to a local authority area in England, means—
(a) the local authority;
(b) any clinical commissioning group for an area any part of which falls within the local authority area.””