Your hub for practical safeguarding learning
Bringing together learning and insights from child safeguarding reviews to support stronger practice for children.
Featured learning resources
Adolescent suicide
Resources to help professionals recognise suicide risk and respond early.
Neglect
Resources to help professionals recognise cumulative harm and respond to neglect.
Child sexual abuse
Resources to help professionals recognise and respond to child sexual abuse.
Vulnerable babies
Resources to help professionals identify and safeguard babies at risk of harm.
Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage children
Resources to help professionals safeguard Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage children.
Safeguarding children not in school
Resources to help professionals respond to risks when children are not in education.
About the Panel
We identify learning from serious safeguarding incidents to help improve how children are protected across England.
We are an independent panel overseeing serious child safeguarding cases and identifying system‑wide learning.
Guidance for safeguarding partners and professionals involved in the child safeguarding practice review process.
Answers to common questions about the Panel and how reviews work.
News
Why do the same child safeguarding failures keep happening, despite decades of reviews, reforms and recommendations?
Every time a child dies or suffers serious harm due to abuse or neglect, the same question is asked: how could this have happened?
Persistent themes in safeguarding reviews now available
Ten persistent themes draw together national learning from safeguarding reviews, helping practitioners, leaders and safeguarding partnerships reflect on recurring challenges and what needs to change.
New adolescent suicide animation now available
This short animation brings together key learning from safeguarding reviews, highlighting how cumulative harm, vulnerability and life experiences can interact to increase suicide risk.
Newsletter – September 2026
In this edition of the Panel's newsletter, you will find information about a webinar on persistent themes in child safeguarding reviews, our latest quarterly rapid review analysis, a new information sharing duty for safeguarding practitioners, changes to DBS rules on regulated activity, a recording of our webinar on adolescent suicide risk, Devon's Every Baby Matters campaign, August's published LCSPRs, and updated statutory guidance on domestic abuse related death reviews.
Reports and statistics
This briefing paper brings together learning from 10 persistent themes to support strategic reflection, quality assurance, partnership working and system improvement among safeguarding leaders and partnerships.
An overview of rapid reviews relating to incidents occurring between January and March 2026.
An Advisory Framework to support safeguarding partners in delivering local safeguarding arrangements in England.
Concerned about a child?
If you are a member of the public concerned about a child, you can find information on reporting concerns to councils.