TY  - BOOK
T1  - Promoting safe sleeping and preventing sudden unexpected death in infancy
AU  - Hanrahan F
AU  - Flood S
Y1  - 2020/11/10
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/10
N2  - This short briefing shares key messages from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s national thematic review of sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI), published in July 2020. We hope the briefing will be useful to managers and teams across universal and targeted multi-agency early help and safeguarding in developing respectful and authoritative relationship-based safeguarding practice. 
Key messages:
• Sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) is increasingly occurring in families where other safeguarding concerns are also present including parental alcohol and drug use, neglect, domestic violence, and where there are mental health concerns.
• Co-sleeping was a feature in nearly all SUDI cases notified to the Panel between June 2018 and August 2019.
• The contexts that families are living in make acting on safer sleeping messages particularly challenging, for example temporary housing or changes in sleeping arrangements.
• As such, the report highlights ‘the need for a flexible and tailored approach to prevention… which recognises and is responsive to the reality of people’s lives’ (Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, 2020, p. 7).
• We summarise current practices which reduce the risk of SUDI outlined in the report.
• Finally, the report calls for a new multi-agency approach to SUDI prevention and proposes a ‘prevent and protect’ practice model which we outline here.
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PB  - Dartington: Research in Practice
SN  - 978-1-911638-48-3
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