Police are investigating the death of a child in Aranui.

Emergency services were called to a property in Bournemouth Cres at about 7.51am.

A police communications spokesman said police were attending after the "death of a small child".

He said there were very few details able to be released at this time.

It is the second child death police have attended in the past week.

On Monday emergency services were called to a Fitzgerald Ave home at about 5am after reports of a six-month-old baby had died.