Six other serious case reviews still to report

[Alison J Stevens]

 

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Six other serious case reviews still to report

There are six other serious case reviews pending in Leicestershire which are due to be published in the near future.

Four are understood to involve child deaths.

Serious case reviews are only usually carried out when there has been a death.

However, they can be ordered when injuries sustained are serious, like in the case of Baby B.

The reviews are designed to look at what went wrong in the lead-up to the death and to examine how the system could be improved in future.

Only a summary of the review can be made public.

This will not be the case in future. New Government guidance says full reports for serious case reviews started after June 10 must be published.

The Baby B review was started in March 2009.

The full document is circulated to all the agencies involved in child welfare, including local authorities, the police and the health service.

The review was carried out by Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Local Safeguarding Children B....

Children's charities have been critical of reviews in the past. The NSPCC has said reviews were important but often did not say clearly enough what went wrong.

 

 

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/child-case-reviews-repor...

So Leicester City council have just wasted £1,100 at the taxpayers expense, by issuing their Social Workers with touch screen laptops.

May i suggest that the money would of been better spent,on front line child protection issues,protecting vulnerable children,or extra training,and the recruitment of more Social Workers, Leicestershire Social Services have failed in their duties to protect children in the past, which has resulted in tragic child deaths, requiring serious case reviews.

In this case they have definitely got their priorities wrong at a time of cutbacks,and financial restraints imposed on Local Authorities.

 

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