The Department for Education report has been released to children’s rights charity Article 39, after the organisation won an information rights tribunal last month during which it was ruled that government did not have the right to keep the details of the report private.
The report, a short summary of which was included in the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s annual report for 2019/20, published in May 2021, contains details of 89 cases were looked after children died or suffered serious harm between June 2018 to June 2020.
The author was asked to review serious incident notifications received by the panel from local authorities concerning looked after children.
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