
Learning & Reviews
Learning from local and national reviews is an important way to improve the safeguarding practices for children and young people. Reviews can identify what works well and what needs to change, as well as highlight good practices and lessons learned. By sharing the findings and recommendations of reviews, agencies can learn from each other and implement changes.
Safeguarding Themes
National Learning
National learning plays a vital role in strengthening safeguarding practice by drawing on insights, reviews, and evidence from across the country. It helps professionals understand emerging risks, learn from serious cases, and apply consistent standards, ensuring that responses to children and families are informed, effective, and continually improving.

Protecting all vulnerable babies better
National review into the broader safeguarding issues raised by the death of baby

Southport Inquiry
Volume 1 of the Southport Inquiry sets out the background, context, and scope of the inquiry

Lost Boys: State of the Nation
The Centre for Social Justice’s Lost Boys report highlights a national crisis facing boys and young men.

Learning Support & Capability Project
This report, commissioned by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, sheds valuable light on how we can best learn from tragic incidents where children have died or been seriously harmed because of abuse or neglect.

Housing: learning from case reviews
NSPCC provide a summary of key issues and learning for improved practice for housing services and providers


