Serious Case Reviews: Learning Lessons - Improving Practice
There has long been a concern in Derbyshire that the messages and lessons, findings and recommendations from the analysis of the experience of children and young people in the most difficult of circumstances are shared and used to improve practice and develop the effectiveness of responses to children and young people in the future.
The recent national focus on 'safeguarding' services, processes, procedures and professional practice has only heightened this concern.
The document 'Serious Case Reviews: Learning Lessons - Improving Practice' seeks to set out the context for understanding the what, when, why and how of 'serious case reviews', to trace something of their impact, to consider what Serious Case Reviews, Part 8 Reports and Public Inquiry Reports might tell us - and to consider the lessons and messages from:
historical trends
patterns and recurring themes
the national picture and the local picture.
Three areas and 14 key points for practice are identified from the lessons and messages and these are set out in a development process and tool for individuals, teams and groups of staff and volunteers from across the children's and young people's workforce to use to evaluate current practice, identify areas of best practice and highlight areas for further practice development.
The full document is available for downlaoding below along with a seperate copy of the review and development tool from Appendix 1.
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