FOI disclosure log

Message from Hackney Council

24 February 2020

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Dear  ***** *****

 

Re: Freedom of Information Request.

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, received 28 January 2020. Your request has been considered and our response is in bold below.

 

The Council’s Response

1: Since January 1, 2019 how many Serious Case Reviews, or newly named  Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, have been started by the council or local children’s safeguarding board for your borough?

Three

 

2. Please provide the dates for when these reviews started.

Two in May 2019, 1 in July 2019.

 

3. Since January 1, 2019 how many Serious Case Reviews/ Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews has the borough completed?

None

 

4. Please provide the dates of completion.

N/A

 

5. How many of these have been publicly published?

N/A

 

6. How many are awaiting sign off for publication?

All three SCRs commissioned after 1 January 2019 are in progress

 

7. If any competed review has not been published in full, what is the reason?

N/A.  As a safeguarding children’s partnership working with statutory and non-statutory agencies across the City of London and Hackney, we are committed to a safeguarding first approach, i.e. always doing what we believe is best for children. Whenever possible, we therefore share the outcomes from serious case and other learning reviews that we commission or participate in. We do this via publishing such cases on the CHSCP website.

 

The main exception to such an approach would be when to do so might interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation or jeopardise the health or wellbeing of a child or other person involved in the review. In such circumstances we do not publish. We do however make alternative arrangements to share learning from such cases with appropriate safeguarding professionals. 

 

8. Since January 1 2019 how many Serious Case Reviews or Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews being led by another borough has the council contributed to?

None

 

9. Please list the boroughs or councils which led or are leading the review.

N/A

 

10. How many Serious Case Reviews or Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews is the council/ local children’s safeguarding board for your borough currently working on?

Four 

 

11. When are these expected to be completed and published?

 April 2020

 

12. Please send me a copy of every full Serious Case Review or Child Safeguarding Practice Review completed by the council since January 2019, or provide a link to where they are published.

http://www.chscb.org.uk/case-reviews/

 

13. Please send the full reports - not summaries - if possible.

See above link.

 

14. Since January 1, 2019 how many Domestic Homicide Reviews has the borough started?

NONE

 

15. Please provide the dates for when these reviews started.

 N/A

 

16. Since January 1, 2019 how many Domestic Homicide Reviews has your borough completed?

 N/A

 

17. Please provide the dates of completion.

 N/A

 

Appeals & Complaints Procedure

If you are dissatisfied with this response and wish to appeal, please reply to this email or write to the Information Management Team and this will be dealt with through our Internal Review procedure.

Information Management Team

London Borough of Hackney

Hackney Service Centre

1 Hillman Street

London E8 1DY

 

Your request should be submitted to us within 40 working days of receipt by you of this response. Any request received after this time will only be considered at the discretion of the Council.

 

If you are still not satisfied following the Internal Review, you have a right to appeal to the Information Commissioner"s:

https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/

Information Commissioner"s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

0303 123 1113

Yours sincerely

 

Information Management Team

ICT Services
London Borough of Hackney