Footnotes

• Contributors PH and RG wrote the editorial.

• Funding The authors’ work on child deaths was commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) on behalf of NHS England, NHS Wales, the Health and Social care division of the Scottish government, The Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS), the States of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. RG is a co-investigator with the Farr Institute for Health Informatics Research @ UCLP.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.