We are committed to supporting practitioners and organisations to improve practice and achieve the best outcomes for children and young people.
Reviewing professional practice, alongside personal reflection, allows for the identification of learning and best practice. Reviews can range from case audits and best practice reviews, through to lessons learnt and Serious Child Safeguarding Incidents, and can be undertaken using a range of methodology. However the purpose is the same, to identify how to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people.
The LSCP is responsible for initiating a Child Safeguarding Practice Review (CSPR), if recommended following a Rapid Review.
The purpose of the Review is to:
- Establish whether there are any lessons to be learnt from the case and from the way in which local professionals and organisations worked together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
- Identify clearly what those lessons are, how they will be acted on, what is expected to change as a result and within what timescale.
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- As a consequence, improve inter-agency working to better safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 provides greater autonomy to Multi-agency Safeguarding Partnerships with regards to how a CSPR is undertaken, and will differ for each review depending on the circumstances of the SCSI. In order to support the review process the LSCP has identified a set of principles for undertaking reviews which can be found in the SCSP Framework (available on request from LSCP.info@leeds.gov.uk)