Archived resources

Triennial Analyses

Complexity and challenge: 2014-2017 Final report (2020).

Pathways to harm, pathways to protection: 2011-2014 Final report (2016).

Biennial Analyses

New learning from serious case reviews: a two year report for 2009-2011.

Child and family practitioners’ understanding of child development: Lessons learnt from a small sample of serious case reviews 2011.

Building on the learning from serious case reviews: A two-year analysis of child protection database notifications 2007-2009.

Understanding Serious Case Reviews and their Impact: 2005-2007.

Analysing child deaths and serious injury through abuse and neglect - what can we learn?: 2003-2005.

Improving safeguarding practice: 2001-2003.

Learning from Past Experience: 1998-2001.

2020 briefings

Complexity and challenge - Triennial analysis 2014-2017

• Children’s social care.
• Early help.
• Education sector.
• Health professionals.
• Police and criminal justice.
• Local safeguarding partnerships.

PowerPoint slide presentations

• Children’s social care presentation.
• Local safeguarding partnerships presentation.
• Health professionals presentation.
• Police and criminal justice agencies presentation.
• Education sector presentation.
• Early help presentation.

2016 briefings

Pathways to harm, pathways to protection - Triennial analysis 2011-2014

• Children’s social care briefing.
• Local safeguarding partnerships briefing.
• Health professionals briefing.
• Police and criminal justice agencies briefing.
• Education sector briefing.
• Early help briefing.

View all supporting archived film resources.

NSPCC

The NSPCC website includes a case reviews area which contains:

• The national case review repository | NSPCC Learning: The repository was launched in 2013 to provide a single place for published case reviews, including serious case reviews, thematic analysis reports and case reviews published anonymously on behalf of Safeguarding Children Partnerships.
  
  
• Thematic briefings: Briefings highlighting the learning from SCRs, pulling together key risk factors and practice recommendations.
  
  
• Recently published case reviews | NSPCC Learning: A list of the executive summaries or full overview reports of serious case reviews, significant case reviews or multi-agency child practice reviews published 2017-2021. Earlier reports and summaries are available, see published research reports.
  
  
• Outputs from Serious Case Reviews: Learning into Practice Project (LiPP) – SCIE: Funded by the Department of Education Innovation Fund. Over 2015, NSPCC and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) piloted ways to improve the quality of SCRs and use the learning to improve practice. Outputs include:
  

  • Inter-professional communication and its impact upon decision making - NSPCC and SCIE looked at 38 SCRs (published May 2014 -April 2015) and identified 44 practice issues relating to communication and decision making. They produced a mapping document giving an overview of the practice issues and 14 briefings that look at some of these issues in more detail. 

  • Serious Case Review Quality Markers - 18 Quality Markers to help support commissioners and reviewers to commission and conduct high quality reviews. They provide a consistent and robust approach to SCRs by covering the whole process from setting up to running the review, to looking at outputs and outcomes from the review.

Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (CSPRP)

The CSPRP website includes the Panel's news; practice reviews and reports; guidance and regulations; and research and statistics.