Believe it or not, in comparison to most other countries, it is well-established and effective. But Local Children’s Safeguarding Boards (LCSBs) will no longer be statutory and Serious Case Reviews will be replaced under a new system, resulting from the enactment of the Children and Social Work Act 2017. The current public consultation on the proposed changes to the Working Together to Safeguard Children Guidance will determine the final version that will fully implement the new law.
Whether this new system is more effective in the long run remains to be seen, but the guidance, yet to be set in stone, provides a crucial insight into the system’s new ‘feel’. For example, instead of asking whether a child death was preventable, it is proposed that the child death review process considers and identifies ‘modifiable factors’ – contributory factors to a death that could be modified to reduce the risk of future child deaths.
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