Tim Loughton – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2014-03-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many serious case reviews have been (a) commissioned and (b) published since June 2010.
Mr Edward Timpson
302 serious case reviews (SCRs) have been commissioned by local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs) and notified to the Department for Education since June 2010. 114 have been published.
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Serious case reviews commissioned |
Serious case reviews published[1] |
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|
10 June 2010 to 31 March 2011 |
52 |
0 |
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1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012 |
55 |
12 |
|
1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013 |
81 |
31 |
|
1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 |
114 |
71 |
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Total |
302 |
114 |
136 SCRs are currently in progress. 30 SCRs have been notified as not for publication due to compelling reasons related to the welfare of the children directly related to these cases.
22 SCRs have been completed and have not yet been published due to outstanding police investigations, criminal proceedings and welfare issues.
We have set up a national panel of independent experts who will advise and challenge LSCBs on any case where an LSCB has concerns about the publication of an SCR report and/or intends not to publish an SCR report.
[1] Overview reports only. These figures do not include executive summaries published during this period.
