CONI: confirmation of continuing relevance after 20 years.

The Care of Next Infant (CONI) programme is offered through health services to provide extra support to families with babies born following a cot death. Audit of centrally collected data about families registered with the programme and feedback from parents show that compared with national data, families on CONI have more factors associated with an increased risk of cot death, confirming that a history of cot death identifies a particularly high-risk group. The programme, first offered to parents in 1988, remains attractive and helpful to parents in the 21st century. The CONI programme, including provision of a movement monitor, enables health visitors to deliver a targeted programme of extra care to a vulnerable group of babies.