Deaths of looked after children

Local authorities must notify the Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Government within 24 hours of the death of a looked after child.

Local authorities must:

• complete the attached DLC1 form and send this to cistrategicteamnotification@careinspectorate.gov.scot
• send a copy of the completed DLC1 form to the Scottish Government at Looked_after_children@gov.scot

Please note, this is separate from the duty of a registered care service to notify us of the death of a service user. These should be submitted via our eforms system.

More information about notification and reporting arrangements can be found here.

Please submit all relevant forms/reports through secure email to cistrategicteamnotification@careinspectorate.gov.scot 

The main contact for this work is Karen McCormack, strategic inspector or Sharon Telfer, strategic inspector, email cistrategicteamnotification@careinspectorate.gov.scot