Contact

Mail :	Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board Windsor House Tavistock Road Plymouth PL6 5UF Plymouth City Council Plymouth PL1 2AA
Phone :	01752 307535
Email :	pscb@plymouth.gov.uk
Fax :	01752 307403

Serious case reviews

A serious case review is carried out by the Local Safeguarding Children Board when a serious incident or death of a child occurs.

Reviews are carried out to determine what lessons, if any, can be learned by the agencies involved. The purpose of a serious case review is not to assign blame.

Agencies involved with the child in question compile reports about their actions and involvement and submit it to the Serious Case Review sub-group of the Local Safeguarding Children Board. The sub-group then commission an independent investigator to look into the reports and interview the staff involved to determine of there are lessons to be learned. A serious case review report is then compiled and discussed with the relevant managers and staff of the agencies involved.

An executive summary of each serious case review is made available online to the public.

Below are the executive summaries of serious case reviews carried out in Plymouth to date.

Serious case review for 'child A' - October 2011 [136KB]