What are Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews?

Working Together to Safeguard Children is the statutory guidance that sets out the legislative and statutory framework for safeguarding partnerships to review serious child safeguarding cases.

The responsibility for how the system learns the lessons from serious child safeguarding incidents also lies at a national level with the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel and at a local level with the Brent Safeguarding Children Partnership (BSCP).

The BCSP has a duty to review all local serious child safeguarding cases in order to identify improvements to be made to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

The Brent Safeguarding Children Partners have made arrangements to identify and review serious child safeguarding cases which, in their view, raise issues of importance in relation to their area. They must commission and oversee the review of those cases, where they consider it appropriate for a review to be undertaken.

The Brent Safeguarding Children Partners have agreed a procedure for identifying and reviewing Local Child Safeguarding Cases in Brent.

Click here to download the Brent procedure for Identifying and Reviewing Local Child Safeguarding Cases in Brent

The BSCP Case Review Group (chaired by the Independent Chair/Scrutineer) is the key mechanism agreed by the Brent Safeguarding Partners that carries out rapid reviews and local child safeguarding practice reviews.