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Archived Reports – Child Death Review Unit
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Annual Reports
- 2008 Annual Report - Child Death Review Unit [PDF]
This report provides a summary of the Child Death Review Unit’s work in 2008. It outlines what the CDRU is all about; who we are, what we do and why we do it. It also outlines the progress that has been made on the implementation of recommendations and highlights the upcoming work we will be doing over the next few years.
- 2007 Annual Report - Child Death Review Unit [PDF]
The report looks at common risk factors among 395 deaths involving children and youth ages one day to 18-years-old that occurred between 1999 and 2007, and issues recommendations that aim to prevent future child deaths. The review determined 126 deaths were preventable and of those deaths, the cause most often cited as responsible for the loss of life were 58 transport related incidents.
- 2006 Annual Report - Child Death Review Unit [PDF]
While motor vehicle incidents remain the main reason why B.C. children die accidentally, for the first time, suicide is now the second leading cause of preventable death, according to annual report data released by the Child Death Review Unit (CDRU) of the BC Coroners Service.
- 2005 Annual Report - Child Death Review Unit [PDF]
First CDRU Annual Report chronicling its work from 2003 - 2005. It is the result of ongoing aggregate review of both descriptive and statistical information relating to children’s deaths, providing important insight into some of the causative and contributory factors that lead to deaths of infants and young people.
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