| Innhold: | A report on 25 significant case reviews has highlighted that some agencies in Scotland did not always recognise or respond adequately or quickly enough in some of the most serious child protection cases.
The findings from the Care Inspectorate are published today in a report on significant case reviews carried out between April 2015 and March 2018.
A significant case review is a multi-agency process initiated by child protection committees. They are intended to establish the facts of, and lessons from, a situation where a child has died or been significantly harmed. Significant case reviews should focus on learning and reflect on day-to-day practices and systems within which those practices operate.
In today’s report, inspectors said: “The importance of well-managed, interagency collaborative working was evident in supporting planning and decision making alongside timely and appropriate sharing of information. In 12 of the reports we reviewed, there was a need to strengthen processes for effective development and review of the child’s plan with multi-agency input. |