Case reviews

Support for local safeguarding children boards

Local safeguarding children board and reviewers can use the following resources and services to:

  • commission and deliver effective case reviews and serious case reviews.
  • learn from national SCR findings.

Serious Case Review Quality Markers

18 Quality Markers for case reviews and Serious Case Reviews (SCRs). Covering the whole process, the Quality Markers provide a consistent and robust approach to SCRs. They are based on established principles of effective reviews as well as SCR practice expertise, and ethical considerations.

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Practice issues from Serious Case Reviews

Learning about difficulties in inter-professional communication and decision-making identified through a collation of SCRs. Includes a map of all issues and 14 detailed briefings. The briefings aim to support self-assessment by presenting why these issues arise, and how they might be addressed.

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Learning Together

Learning Together supports learning and improvement in safeguarding adults and children.

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