About Serious Case Review Quality Markers
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Find out moreSerious Case Review Quality Markers
Achieving a good quality Serious Case Review process and report is challenging. As part of the Learning into Practice Project we developed a set of Quality Markers to support commissioners and reviewers to commission and conduct high quality reviews.
Covering the whole process, the 18 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.
Review setup
Includes:
- Referral
- Decision making
- Advising board members
- Informing the family
- Clarity of purpose
Running the review
Includes:
- Commissioning
- Governance
- SCR management
- Parallel processes
- Assembling information
- Practitioner involvement
- Family involvement
- Analysis
Review outputs
- Report
- Improvement action
- Board written response
- Publication
- Implementation and evaluation