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Child fatality review team cites system gaps; community child protection team recommends targeted interventions
Summary
Local fatality review and child-protection teams reviewed last year’s deaths and several active child-welfare cases and recommended targeted interventions, referrals and system-level requests to state agencies.
The Union County Child Fatality Prevention Team and the county’s Community Child Protection Team reported quarterly reviews and made recommendations aimed at preventing future child deaths and improving responses to active, high-complexity child-welfare cases.
The child fatality team reviewed deaths from the prior calendar year during the quarterly meeting and reported 19 child deaths under age 18 for the period examined. Team members summarized leading causes: perinatal conditions and birth defects accounted for the majority of infant deaths; accidental injury and…
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