Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many serious case reviews in the last 20 years have resulted in all recommendations being implemented.

Serious Case Reviews (SCRs) are locally led enquiries and as such most recommendations are for local safeguarding partnerships to implement. The department has commissioned regular reviews of SCRs to analyse their content, the latest of which was published in March 2020. This noted that the majority (89%) of respondents to a survey of all English Local Safeguarding Children Boards felt that SCRs had facilitated local change.

As part of the new multi-agency safeguarding arrangements, safeguarding partnerships are required to report annually on how they have implemented the learning from local reviews. These are both published and submitted to the national panel.