Child Safeguarding Practice Review:

The purpose of serious child safeguarding case reviews, at local and national level, is to identify improvements that can be made to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. Learning is relevant locally but has a wider importance for all practitioners working with children and families and for the government and policymakers. Understanding whether there are systemic issues, and whether and how policy and practice need to change, is critical to the system being dynamic and self-improving.

The responsibility for how the system learns the lessons from serious child safeguarding incidents lies at a national level with the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (the panel) and at a local level with the safeguarding partners.

A CSPR is different from the a Rapid Review, it may be initiated as a recommendation from a Rapid Review to facilitate a more in depth review of circumstances regarding a serious child safeguarding incident than is available during the 15 day timeframe for a Rapid Review.