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That Board members be invited to review the
recommendations and to reflect on how they may be able to
contribute to their delivery.

Environmental risk factors:
(1) 
Services and planners of services should work
together to ensure that families with children have opportunities
to access all the financial assistance they are eligible
for.

 
(2) 
Ensure that women have good access to
pre-conception health advice. This should not be limited to women
seeking medical advice, but should be available to all women,
regardless of pregnancy status.

 

Service provision:

(3) 
Ensure that children and families in more
socioeconomically deprived parts of Bradford have good access to
services including maternity, health visiting, school nursing,
social care, and education. This may include considerations of
timing, location and transport to services, and of the language,
both written and spoken, used to communicate messages and
information to families.

 

(4) 
Continue, learn from, and expand on the current
work to increase cultural competency of the maternity and children
& young people’s workforce, with the aim to ensure that
children and families from ethnic minority backgrounds have
equitable access to culturally competent services.

 

(5) 
Services and organisations must work to identify
needs of children and families, and to refer to appropriate
services as needed. Strong partnership working and referral
pathways between services will be key to this.

 

(6) 
CDOP must ensure strong partnerships with the
Bradford Children’s Trust and with the Safeguarding
Partnership, and that the bodies are sighted on the findings and
recommendations set out in this report.

 

Individual risk factors:

(7) 
Work through schools, colleges and communities to
educate children and young people on safety messages should be
undertaken. This may include information on swimming safely, road
safety, drug and alcohol messaging, and general hazard
awareness.

 

(8) 
Links should be strengthened between the suicide
prevention board and the CDOP panel.

 

(9) 
Continue the work on genetic literacy and
culturally competent service provision through the Every Baby
Matters steering group.

 
(10)              
Promote universal messaging for all new parents
on safe      sleep.
This should be consistent across services and professionals to
ensure that advice is the same, whoever is delivering
it.

 

(11)              
Provide advice for parents on safety in and
outside of the home.
 
Process:
(12)              
The terms of reference and operation of CDOP
should be regularly reviewed to guarantee continual quality
improvement of the process, and to ensure that the meeting
continues to model best practice.
 

To be actioned by: Director of Public Health