Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel: First National Review
Panel chair, Edward Timpson, has today written to the Secretary of State for Education announcing the first ever national child safeguarding practice review.
Following receipt of numerous notifications of serious child safeguarding cases, Edward Timpson advised that they theme of this review relates to adolescents in need of State protection from criminal exploitation.
The review will commence in March 2019, and complete within six months.
The draft Terms of References are outlined as follows:
Review Question:
- Do adolescents in need of State protection from criminal exploitation get the help they need, when they need it?
- How can the services designed to keep adolescents safe from criminal exploitation, and the way those services work together, be improved to prevent further harm?
Lines of Enquiry:
- Who are we talking about?
- How do we best identify and engage the young people of concern?
- Why are they more at risk?
- What is the current approach to managing that risk?
- Is that approach effective?
- What are the examples of best practice?
- How could practice be more effective?
- How can we best measure effectiveness?
- What is in scope and what is not?
The Review will draw learning from the serious cases which have been to Panel since July 2018, involving the death or serious harm of adolescents who have been subject to criminal exploitation, or suspected of being so.
For full details, please see the notification here.
