Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 9375
Children: Death
Tabled: 15 October 2024
Answered: 2 December 2024
Question
Rebecca Paul
Conservative — Reigate
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason his Department's Notification of Child Death Form asks about the gender with which the child identified at the time of their death in cases where the child was over 10; and whether
Answer
Karin SmythThe Notification of Child Death Form, part of the National Child Mortality Database, continues to capture the sex of the child for anyone under the age of 18 years old, in line with sex being a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.Although...
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