Children’s Ombudsman calls for child death review process to be implemented to aid bereaved families

Children’s Ombudsman Niall Muldoon said at present it was not possible to put an accurate figure on the number of children who die in Ireland unexpectedly each year. Picture: Maxwells

The Children’s Ombudsman has called for a child death review process to be implemented by the Government as an “urgent necessity” to aid bereaved families in their quest for transparency about how their children died.

Niall Muldoon called for the addition of child death reviews to Ireland’s health service to be made as soon as possible, saying the ongoing absence of a standardised process in the event of the loss of a child was “totally unacceptable at this point”.