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BBC drama highlights sexual exploitation issues
The BBC drama Three Girls has raised awareness around sexual grooming, the signs that children may be at risk and the techniques that abusers...
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SCR criticises ‘optimistic’ use of special guardianship order
A Serious Case Review has found that agencies missed opportunities to uncover abuse of two young children, and that there were serious flaws in the as...
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Serious Case Review find ‘corners were cut’ in case of Child L
A restructure of children’s services meant that ‘corners were cut’ and agencies failed to properly investigate the case of Child L, according to...
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Number of SCRs drops to three-year low
Ofsted’s analysis of its data about child deaths and serious harm has revealed an almost 20% drop in the number of serious case reviews (SCRs) carri...
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SCR: Professionals lost sight of children
An SCR has criticised the professionals involved in a case where a three-month-old baby died in Doncaster for focusing too much on the mother. The you...
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Social worker turnover damaged understanding of case
A high turnover of social worker staff damaged a council’s understanding of a case where a 17-year-old fostered boy died, according to a Serious Cas...
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Failings found in Wigan child abuse case
A SCR into two children from Preston who suffered years of sexual and physical abuse has found numerous failings in how the victims were treated by Wi...
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SCR: murder couldn’t have been foreseen
This serious case review into the death of a 14-year-old boy from Carlisle has concluded that his murder couldn’t have been foreseen by authorities...
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