Serious case reviews

Forms and guidance for child death overview panels.

Services

Child death reviews: forms for reporting child deaths

Forms to help child death overview panels (CDOPs) assess the causes of a child’s death as part of the child death review process.

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Guidance and regulation

Child death overview panels: contacts
- Guidance
- 15 August 2024
- Department of Health and Social Care

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News and communications

Experts demand accelerated change in multi-agency safeguarding practice
- 30 January 2024
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Press release
Government action following murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes
- 17 December 2021
- Department for Education
- Press release
Education Secretary addresses Parliament on child safeguarding
- 6 December 2021
- Department for Education
- Oral statement
Safeguarding system needs to do more to protect teens and infants from abuse and neglect
- 4 March 2020
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Press release

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Research and statistics

Serious case reviews: analysis, lessons and challenges
- 15 December 2022
- Department for Education
- Research
Wood Review of multi-agency safeguarding arrangements
- 14 May 2021
- Department for Education
- Independent report
Safeguarding children at risk from criminal exploitation
- 4 March 2020
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Research
Analysis of serious case reviews: 2014 to 2017
- 4 March 2020
- Department for Education
- Research
Serious incident notifications from local authority children’s services 2016 to 2017
- 31 October 2017
- Ofsted
- Official statistics

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel: annual report 2022 to 2023
- 2 February 2024
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Corporate report
Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel: annual report 2018 to 2019
- 4 March 2020
- Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Corporate report

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Organisations

Ofsted

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