Tim Loughton – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2014-03-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what dates the National Panel on Serious Case Reviews has met; and if he will publish the minutes of that Panel’s meetings.

Mr Edward Timpson

The national panel of independent experts on Serious Case Reviews has met on the following dates:

1. 25 July 2013

2. 9 September 2013

3. 11 November 2013

4. 13 January 2014

5. 10 February 2014

6. 10 March 2014

The key output of the panel meetings is letters from the panel to Local Safeguarding Children Boards making recommendations on the cases put to them, about the application of the SCR criteria, the appointment of reviewers and the publication of SCR reports. The letters refer to sensitive material not in the public domain and would not therefore be routinely publishable.