Serious Case Review

In case of serious harm reviewing the serious case and the role of all the involved agencies.

As there are a number of different agencies which may be involved when working in the context of safeguarding, it is important that they communicate and work in partnership to ensure the safety and protection of children. Each area of expertise may need to have an input in any one case and each should be considered when discussing issues around safeguarding. A working party or ‘team around the child’ meeting may be called involving a number of agencies in order to discuss how to move forward in the best interests of the child. Different organisations involved in safeguarding are: social services, the NSPCC, health visitors, GPs, the probation service, the police, schools, the psychology service. When it comes to safeguarding, children are best protected when professionals know what is required of them and how they work together. This means that everyone who works with children has a responsibility for keeping them safe which involves identifying concerns, sharing information and taking prompt action. To carry this out effectively professionals need to work in partnership with each other.

This case deals with the current issue of failures in the system of child protection in NSW.

It is important to remember that if the professionals involved decide to investigate the matter when a suspected case of child abuse has been reported by the practitioner; then the practitioner’s records will be vital evidence and, as such, must be accurate. It may be many months after the event has taken place when the practitioner is

* The establishment of Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards (LSCB) with statutory power to ensure that social services, the NHS, education services, the police and other services work together to protect vulnerable children.

National society for the prevention of cruelty to children- Referrals are made to the N.S.P.C.C. then they will decide if further investigation is necessary.

Serious case reviews are called by the local safeguarding children’s board when a child dies and abuse and neglect are known or suspected to be a factor in the death. They will involve the local authority children’s service and the police, as well as health, education

* Analysing the child’s and families need’s and the level of risk or harm the child may be suffering

The importance of interagency working in the safeguarding and protection of children in the UK

Staff were not aware of who they could talk to, this critic’s poor management and lack of training. Staff have a duty of care according to section 11 of Children Act 2004 and yet they could not protect Daniels safety and wellbeing and failed to take any action to save his

* ‘Where a child sustains a potentially life threatening injury or serious and permanent impairment of health and development through abuse and neglect’

In the case where a child or young person has been harmed there are many organisations who may be involved, this could be from the first point of contact to the end result of the situation these can include: • Police – At local level the police are a partner in the LSCB, and safeguarding is a basic part of every police officers duties. They play an essential role in protecting children from abuse and have a legal duty to carry out their work having due regard to protecting and promoting the welfare of children. They are there to protect children

The responsibility of middle management within the Child Abuse Investigation team is enabling the organisation to achieve its goal in the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, protecting children from abuse and neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development, and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care which is undertaken so as to enable children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.  Child protection is a part of safeguarding and promoting

The jurisdiction of the Hannover Institute of Legal medicine unveiled three cases of lethal child neglect under a short five-month period. During the recent years, only a few of the autopsies performed were cases involving fatal child neglect. The three cases occurring within months was purely coincidental. However, the jurisdiction used this opportunity for evaluating the similarities and differences from each case. One of the cases, specifically number three, was about a mother of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl that told her lawyer that she found her daughter lying dead in her apartment for several weeks. Supposedly she found her daughter lying lifeless on her bed at night. This poor child did not have a medical history, which leads to

The record and interviews indicated the agency did not make concerted efforts to involve the father of the two youngest children in the ongoing case planning process because no visits were held with him during the PUR to assess his needs, services, or his wishes to be involved in the family’s In-home services case which involved his children. The mother and children were involved in the case planning process by having home visits in which an assessment through observation of family functioning was made. The agency identified with the mother her strengths and needs, evaluating her progress in the case plan goals and discussing the plan for services during home visits. All 5 of the older children were aware of the agency inquiring on how they