Serious Case Reviews

LSCBs are required to consider undertaking a Serious Case Review (SCR) whenever a child dies and abuse or neglect are known or suspected to have taken place.

Other circumstances that may lead to a SCR are:

• A child receives a potentially life-threatening injury or serious impairment of their health, as a consequence of abuse or neglect
• A child is subjected to serious sexual abuse
• A parent has been murdered and a homicide review has been initiated
• A child has been killed by a parent with a mental illness
• There are concerns about the way different organisations worked together

Purpose of Serious Case Reviews

SCRs are written by people who are independent from the LSCB that commissions them, in order to identify where there are lessons that can be learned about the way that organisations worked, both individually and together.

Haringey LSCB organises termly SCR Workshops to help disseminate practice learning from local and national Serious Case Reviews - download the Training Programme (Word, 2MB) for dates. For more information, please see our Training pages.

Executive summaries of Haringey SCRs are made available on this site.