Daily roundup: SCR panel established, web porn summit and alcohol admissions

An independent national panel of experts has been established to help ensure that lessons are learned when a child dies or is seriously harmed and there are signs of abuse or neglect. Panel members are Peter Wanless, NSPCC chief executive, Nicholas Dann, of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, Elizabeth Clarke, a family law barrister, and broadcaster and columnist Jenni Russell. They will advise and challenge Local Safeguarding Children Boards to initiate and publish high quality serious case reviews in order that lessons can be learned to improve child protection services nationally.

Major internet companies have been summoned for talks over the ease of access to pornographic and politically extremist material on the web. The Guardian reports that Culture Secretary Maria Miller has invited companies, including Google and Facebook, to a meeting on 17 June to find out what they are doing to police harmful content and to push for a co-ordinated approach.

Children as young as nine have been admitted to hospitals in Lancashire due to alcohol-related illness in the last five years, it has emerged. Figures obtained by the Lancashire Evening Post under the Freedom of Information Act show that during 2012/13, 27 15-year-olds attended accident and emergency with alcohol related conditions, as well as 20 14-year-olds and 10 aged 11-13.

A free school is considering banning homework to give pupils more family time. The Telegraph reports that Jane Austen College in Norwich will be expected to do all their work during normal hours – so they do not have to take anything home in the evenings or at weekends. However the school day is set to be extended to 5pm to create more teaching time.