Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to establish a cross-departmental working group to review multi-agency findings of serious case reviews to help ensure co-ordinated and successful system change.

The responsibility for how the system learns the lessons from serious child safeguarding incidents lies at local level with the safeguarding partners and at national level with the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (the Panel).

The Panel is responsible for identifying and overseeing the review of serious child safeguarding cases which, in its view, raise issues that are complex or of national importance. The Panel have published three national reviews to date, making recommendations both across government and to local practitioners.