Serious Case Reviews

 

Regulation 5 of the Local Safeguarding Children Boards Regulations 2006 requires LSCBs to undertake reviews of serious cases.

The prime purpose of a Serious Case Review (SCR) is for agencies and individuals to learn lessons to improve the way in which they work both individually and collectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

In all cases the SCR overview report should be used to produce an executive summary that should be made public and which accurately reflects the full overview report. The executive summary is anonomysed but will include information about the review process, key issues arising from the case, the recommendations and the action plan (including any actions that have been completed).

The Executive Summaries for the most recent Serious Case Reviews undertaken by the Devon Safeguarding Children Board are available via the links below.

The full guidance and procedure relating to the undertaking of a Serious Case Review is contained within Chapter 8 of the national guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children

Serious Case reviews carried out by the DSCB in the last 12 months

There have been no Serious Case Reviews (SCR) over the last 12 months carried out by the DSCB and information on all archived cases are stored by the DSCB office.

Notification of Serious Childcare Incident form (Ofsted – April 2007)

This form should be used to record the details of any serious childcare incident that must be notified to the Secretary of State.

Notification of Serious Childcare Incident form (Ofsted)

Further details can be found on the Ofsted website

National reviews of serious case reviews

The latest two biennial reviews of serious case reviews are available to download on the DFE website.