Although only eight pages long, the first annual report by the National Panel of Independent Experts on Serious Case Reviews contains a number of severe criticisms of both the content of serious case reviews (SCRs) and those responsible for managing the process of undertaking them.
The national panel's report, published earlier this month, said too many SCRs amount to a narrative of events that led to a child's death, rather than offering an analysis of why things went wrong and what could have been done to prevent it.
The panel suggests this is occurring because of a lack of understanding on the part of local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs), which commission independent experts to carry out reviews on their behalf, about the purpose of serious case reviews.
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