The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) is calling for changes to the way serious case reviews (SCRs) are produced in light of research that shows that too few child protection professionals are seeing reviews and so lessons from them are not being learned.
A BASW survey of 238 child protection workers found that one in four of the respondents said that they never get to read SCRs once they are published, with just 27 per cent saying that they always get to read them.
The survey found that 17 per cent do not even get to read the recommendations, with more than two thirds (67 per cent) saying they “only sometimes” get to read the recommendations.
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