Serious case reviews
Serious case reviews: piloting the SCIE model
Newly launched social care TV film
SCIE has launched a Social Care TV film, Serious case reviews: Piloting the SCIE model, which looks at the first pilot sites of the SCIE model. The pilot sites, which included the Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) of Salford, Wirral and Lancashire, were completed in September 2010. Managers talk about what it was like to work together as a multi-agency review team in conducting the case review, and the experience of using the analytic frameworks that the model provides. Front line practitioners from social care and probation also describe what it was like taking part and give examples of ways in which the experience has positively changed their practice.
To view the film visit Social Care TV - http://www.scie.org.uk/socialcaretv
To learn more about the model visit the SCIE website - http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/learningtogether/index.asp
SCIE London pilots begin
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is working in collaboration with the London Safeguarding Children Board to pilot the SCIE Learning Together model for case reviews in seven London Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs). The pairs of Lead Reviewers from each LSCB will receive training and support from Dr. Sheila Fish and Sue Bairstow, over the course of the case review process. The London pilots benefit from the learning gained in the initial pilots in the North West of England. They will run concurrently with the ongoing pilots in the West Midlands.
The pilots will provide valuable evidence about how we might provide better opportunities for staff from across agencies to come together and reflect critically on their practice and draw out the organisational lessons gained. A Project Management Group chaired by London Regional Safeguarding Adviser Kay Bell will ensure that the learning is shared London-wide.
To learn more about the SCIE systems model click here: http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/learningtogether/index.asp
Amendments to statutory guidance around serious case reviews
On 22 September 2010 Tim Loughton, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families, wrote a letter to DCSs and LSCB chairs to inform them of a change to the statutory guidance set out in Working together to safeguard children (2010) insofar as it relates to Government offices. This change comes into effect on 1 October 2010. See below for a copy of this letter:
Tim Loughton letter, 22 September 2010
You can also download a copy of the letter sent to DCSs and LSCB chairs by Jeanette Pugh, Director of the Safeguarding Group, to confirm arrangements for the gathering of information on serious child care incidents and handling of correspondence related to child protection.
Jeanette Pugh letter: serious child care incidents
Publication of Serious Case Reviews
In early June 2010, Children’s Minister Tim Loughton wrote to all chairs of local safeguarding children boards, and directors of children’s services, to confirm that the overview report and the executive summary of all new serious case reviews (SCRs) initiated from 10 June should be published. The presumption is that all SCRs will be appropriately redacted, anonymised and published in full except where it would affect the welfare of any surviving children and their siblings. See www.education.gov.uk/news/news/munroreview for more information.
London Serious Case Reviews Toolkit
The London Serious Case Review (SCR) Toolkit is designed to provide supplementary guidance to Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) members in the whole process of undertaking a SCR. Its focus is to support the carrying out of a SCR effectively, through supporting consistency in approach, providing additional guidance on undertaking the process and sharing learning and emerging good practice tools and exemplars. The overall aim is to maximise the learning that comes from the SCR in a local area. Please follow the link below to download a copy:
London Serious Case Reviews Toolkit
The London Board is issuing this guidance in draft as the process of SCRs is constantly evolving and the Board is mindful of the fact that there will be a need to revise it in light of any significant changes. For example, an update is being considered in light of the recent decision to publish overview reports in full where the SCR was commenced after the 10th June 2010.
The Board recognises that this toolkit is likely to be of most use to LSCBs where a SCR has not been conducted recently. The London Board website will continue to be updated with useful tools and exemplars as they are identified.
Serious case reviews in London
Please follow the link below to download background paper from GOL, which reports on key issues arising from the serious case reviews (SCRs) concluded in the London region between April 2006 and September 2009 and considers the London cases against the context of the national SCR studies.
Serious case reviews in London
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 at:
