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Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel paper setting out key findings from reviews where domestic abuse featured.

This paper sets out key findings from a thematic analysis of rapid reviews and local child safeguarding practice reviews where domestic abuse featured. It summarises the most common themes that emerged in relation to multi agency safeguarding for children who are victims of domestic abuse and includes examples of practice and recommendations.

Multi-agency safeguarding and domestic abuse paper - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)


This briefing paper from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel is part of an ongoing series of publications to share information arising from work undertaken by the panel with: safeguarding partners

those working in child protection. This paper explores the current guidance on the management of bruising in non mobile infants in the light of published evidence and variations in practice.

The management of bruising in non-mobile infants paper - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

‘Learning for the future’ is an overview and analysis of 235 cases which led to serious case reviews (SCRs) between April 2017 and September 2019.The report gives an overview of the key characteristics of the cases, and addresses:

  • the problem of neglect
  • the challenges of practice
  • the task of listening to the child’s voice

Learning for the future_finalDfE (researchinpractice.org.uk)

This report is an overview and analysis of 235 cases which led to serious case reviews (SCRs) between April 2017 and September 2019, because children or young people had died or suffered serious harm, and abuse or neglect was known or suspected (and, in the non-fatal cases, there was cause for concern as to the way in which agencies had worked together to safeguard the child).

Serious Case Reviews | Serious Case Reviews (researchinpractice.org.uk)

‘Serious case reviews 1998 to 2019’ considers government-commissioned periodic overviews of SCRs, from 1998 until the dissolution of SCRs in 2019. This report aims to give a final overview of practice during that period and the major continuities, changes and challenges for SCRs.

Serious Case Reviews 1998 to 2019 - continuities, changes and challenges Dec 2022


Independent annual report for serious child safeguarding incidents in 2021.

Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel 2021 - annual report (publishing.service.gov.uk)

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