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This explanation on education.gov.uk also outlines what serious case reviews are:
http://www.education.gov.uk/a0068869/scrs

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Serious case reviews are undertaken by Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) for every case where abuse or neglect is known or suspected and either:

• a child dies; or
• a child is seriously harmed and there are concerns about how organisations or professionals worked together to safeguard the child.

Additionally, LSCBs may decide to conduct a SCR whenever a child has been seriously harmed in any of the following situations and the case gives rise to concerns about the way in which local professionals and services worked together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children (including inter-agency and inter-disciplinary working):

• A child sustains a potentially life-threatening injury or serious and permanent impairment of physical and mental health and development through abuse or neglect.
• A child has been seriously harmed as a result of being subjected to sexual abuse.
• A parent has been murdered and a domestic homicide review is being initiated under the Domestic Violence Act 2004.
• A child has been seriously harmed following a violent assault perpetrated by another child or an adult.
Why case reviews are needed is to learn the lessons that a case presents - failings, negligence, gaps and how better to protect children.
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