Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2018 to Question 183314 on Children: Death, if he will make an estimate of how many child death reviews which identified trauma or external factors as the cause of death related to gang violence for each local authority area in England in each of the last five years; and how many of those child death reviews led to a Serious Case Review.

The Department for Education were responsible for data collection from local child death reviews prior to the policy transferring to the Department of Health and Social Care in July 2018. The child death review data collection is not a child level data collection. It is an aggregate collection at local level, so these further breakdowns cannot be provided. Whilst some information is collected at a local level on whether deaths were related to gang violence, numbers are very small and would be suppressed. It has not been possible to determine how many of the child death reviews in this category led to a serious case review, nor to provide a reliable estimate of how many were related to gang violence.