News and events

Every time a child dies or suffers serious harm due to abuse or neglect, the same question is asked: how could this have happened?

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.

This short animation brings together key learning from safeguarding reviews, highlighting how cumulative harm, vulnerability and life experiences can interact to increase suicide risk.

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.

In this edition of our newsletter for August, you will find information about a webinar on adolescent suicide risk, the Government's "Rewiring the State" devolution plan, a call for youth violence resources, Sheffield's knife crime review, July's published LCSPRs, a youth justice funding consultation, and a new Lundy model training resource.

In our July newsletter, you'll find our new suite of learning resources on adolescent suicide, our first quarterly data reports on serious child safeguarding incidents, and details of the Government's response to the consultation on establishing a Child Protection Authority. We also cover the Government's response to our review Protecting all vulnerable babies better, a new briefing for safeguarding partnerships involved in public inquiries, and the Department for Education's consultation on improving help and child protection arrangements.

The Government has published a response to phase 1 of the Southport Inquiry.

The Government has published its response to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s national review following the tragic death of baby Victoria Marten.

The Panel has welcomed the Government's plans for a Child Protection Authority, highlighting the opportunity to strengthen child protection through better use of evidence, stronger multi-agency working and a renewed focus on learning, prevention and improvement.

In our June newsletter you'll find updates on new resources and a webinar on safeguarding children not in school, a recording of our Annual Report 2024/25 webinar, the published Phase 1 report from the Southport Public Inquiry, updates to the serious incident notification form, and the latest on the 'Growing up in the online world' consultation, the under-16 social media ban, and a consultation on information sharing duty statutory guidance.