Serious Case Reviews

Munby: Judges should limit involvement in Serious Case Reviews

04/05/2017
Est. Reading: 2 minutes

Judges’ participation in Serious Case Review should be limited, a senior judge has warned.

Sir James Munby has stated that for important constitutional reasons, judicial participation in SCRs must be limited.

“Therefore, judges do not respond to questions from SCRs, or requests from SCRs to complete Independent Management Reviews, do not attend evidence sessions or other meetings [...]

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Number of Serious Case Reviews into child deaths fall

28/10/2016
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

The number of Serious Case Reviews carried out into child deaths has fallen to the lowest figures in three years.

Picture: Phil Adams

Ofsted figures show that a total of 134 SCRs were initiated between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016 - the lowest recorded number in three years. It represents a drop [...]

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Government to abolish Serious Case Reviews

27/05/2016
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

The government will abolish Serious Case Reviews, it announced yesterday following a review into Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards and multi-agency working.

The review, led by former president of the Association of Children’s Services Alan Wood, recommended that SCRs were scrapped saying that despite guidance to the contrary, the model of serious case reviews has not been [...]

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