Serious Incident Notifications

EDM number 706 in 2009-10, proposed by John Hemming on 25/01/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Child care, Children and families and Children's social services.

That this House notes that the number of serious incident notifications to Ofsted involving the death of a child increased from 144 in 2008 to 186 in 2009, and is particularly concerned that the number of such notifications relating to children under one year old increased from 47 in 2008 to 75 in 2009; raises its concern that the Government has not explained this situation; and calls for the Government to initiate a public consultation as to whether the direction of travel of Government policy is making the problem worse, and whether an alternative strategy would have merit.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs.