serious case review
serious case review
A case review which occurs in the context of the UK Department of Health’s Working Together to Safeguard Children framework, which is intended to• Establish whether lessons can be learned from the case about the way in which local professionals and agencies work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children;
• Identify what those lessons are, how they will be acted on and what is expected to change as a result;
• Improve inter-agency working and better safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Reasons for conducting Serious Case Reviews
• A child dies (including by suicide), and abuse or neglect is known or suspected to be a factor in the death; or
• A child sustains a potentially life-threatening injury or serious and permanent impairment of health and development through abuse or neglect; or
• A child has been subjected to particularly serious sexual abuse; or
• A parent has been murdered and a homicide review is being initiated; or
• A child has been killed by a parent with a mental illness; or
• The case gives rise to concerns about inter-agency working to protect children from harm.