Serious Case Reviews
Important lessons are learned from the detailed review of cases where children have died or received a life-threatening injury due to abuse or neglect. Bedfordshire LSCB conducts formal reviews of these and other serious child abuse cases in accordance with central government guidance contained in Working Together to Safeguard Children, Chapter 8 page.
The Executive Serious Case Review Panel (ESCRP) oversees Serious Case Reviews (SCRs), with a membership of very experienced senior managers drawn from LSCB agencies. ESCRP members are independent of any involvement in the case and has access to any expert knowledge required.
Serious Case Review Process March 2009 IMR Toolkit
Executive summaries of Bedfordshire Serious Case Reviews
DL Executive summary Executive summaries from other areas
Baby P Executive summary Child Death Overview Panel
From the 1st April 2008, all LSCBs in England and Wales are required to establish new processes for looking into the circumstances when a child dies. These new responsibilities are laid out in Chapter 7 of the Government's statutory guidance "Working Together to Safeguard Children" (2006). The guidance sets out two seperate, but related processes. These are: - a rapid response by a group of key professionals who come together for the purpose of enquiring into and evaluating each unexpected death of a child,
- an overview of all child deaths in the LSCB area.
What is a Child Death Overview Panel?
Child Death Overview Panels (CDOPs) are responsible for reviewing information on all child deaths, and are accountable to the LSCB chairs. The LSCB has responsibility for reviewing the deaths of all children resident in its geographical area and the establishing of a Child Death Overview Panel.
The functions of the CDOP:
- collating and analysing information about each death with a view to identifying any case that requires a serious case review; any matters of concern affecting the safety and welfare of children in the area and any wider public health or safety concerns arising from a particular death or patterns of deaths: and
- putting in place procedures for ensuring that there is a co-ordinated response by the authority, its LSCB partners and other persons to an unexpected death.
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