Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to implement recommendations from serious case reviews at the earliest possible opportunity, including during the review if appropriate.

Responsibility for implementing local learning sits with the local Child Safeguarding Partnership. Working Together, 2018, outlines that Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (LCSPR) should be completed and published as soon as possible and no later than six months from the date of the decision to initiate a review. Prior to initiating an LCSPR safeguarding partnerships are required to undertake a rapid review which gathers the facts of the case and whether there is any immediate action needed to ensure children’s safety and share any learning appropriately.

Where there are issues of national significance these are picked up by the National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel who will consider if a national review is necessary. The government takes the recommendations of the national panel extremely seriously.