An “independent panel of experts” will advise local safeguarding children boards on serious case reviews (SCRs) when a child is killed or seriously harmed through abuse or neglect.
While the new Working Together to Safeguard Children manual has shrunk, this is a curious decision from a government set on empowering professionals and cutting bureaucracy. This panel, it is said, will bring more rigour to the review process, and reflect and advise on lessons emerging from SCRs.
Shared learning in child safeguarding is undeniably a good thing. Indeed, it already happens in regional forums such as the capital-wide London Safeguarding Children Board. But while responses to child protection shortcomings will vary slightly according to circumstance, serious case reviews always pinpoint two key areas of deficiency: joint working and training. Often these factors combine.
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