OSCB Learning Event - Learning from Serious Case Reviews in Oxfordshire

The half day event will focus on the 10 learning points from Oxfordshire’s most recent case reviews. These include:

1. The role of the fathers in the family system together with communication with and involvement of fathers and male carers;
2. The need for curiosity about family history, relationships and current circumstances that moves beyond reliance on self-reported information;
3. More challenges are faced by professionals working with vulnerable families where neglect is an embedded issue;
4. The impact of the parent’s mental health problems on the safety and wellbeing of children;
5. Understanding of substance misuse and interventions, the changing levels of risk, and the impact on the child;
6. Normalising and misinterpreting behaviour - linked to Special Educational Needs;
7. Identifying the increased safeguarding risks for children with learning disabilities and Special Educational Needs;
8. Identification of physical abuse and following safeguarding processes thoroughly;
9. Multi-agency work must be well co-ordinated in order to share planning and to better understand what is happening to the child. Effective risk management requires systematic planning across the multi-agency partnership;
10. The capacity of adolescents to protect themselves can be overestimated and a tendency to view teenagers as adults rather than children can mean that proactive steps to protect them are not always taken.

The event will explain how and why we do case reviews and talk you through 3 recent pieces of review work:

• Story of Child Q
• Story of Child C
• Story of Child A and Child B