Sentence examples for child fatality from inspiring English sources

An additonal $300,000 has been allocated for local or regional child fatality review teams.

Still, Ms. Lowry said her review of child fatality reports showed serious shortcomings in the way cases were investigated, even though deaths have declined in recent years.

A prime factor in such failures is the grossly inadequate training of investigating caseworkers, who are typically the first to be blamed in child fatality cases.

Mr. de Blasio's staff analyzed 75 child fatality reports released by the state's Office of Children and Family Services in 2011.

To Douglas Besharov, a conservative scholar who sits on the city's child fatality review panel, when the system has wiggle room it too often errs on the side of the parent.

The State Office of Children and Family Services has approved a request from Westchester County to establish a child fatality review team, the county district attorney, Janet DiFiore, announced yesterday.

But child fatalities are, thankfully, rare.

The state is required to give an accounting of child fatalities under a 1997 law, the Comprehensive Child-Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.

With everyone trained in the two-hour course of "Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect," we would have many fewer child fatalities.

Offering another insight, Dr. D'Urso, the child psychologist, said the apparent murder of Eric Josephs had brought out a frustration he frequently felt in cases of other child fatalities.

Nearly half of the estimated 300 children who die each year under suspicious circumstances could have been saved had some basic preventive steps been taken, according to Dr. Anthony D'Urso, the chairman of a state panel on child fatalities.