Learning from cases where children and adults have been significantly harmed, put at risk of harm or have died is a vital part of an effective and improving system to protect children and adults. Reflecting on learning helps us identify good practice in protection work, and the improvements needed to help protect children and adults in the future.
Join us for our quarterly briefing which will give an overview of the themes from national and local learning reviews. This briefing is relevant for anyone working within East Lothian and Midlothian who supports children, young people or adults.
What the session will cover
This briefing will focus on the findings from a Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review commissioned by Camden Safeguarding Children Partnership in 2025 following the removal of 4 children into police protection after an allegation of sexual abuse by one of the children by their father and physical abuse by their father and mother. The review highlighted significant learning around the importance of understanding the barriers to working more effectively with parents who have learning disabilities or mental ill health; and the need to support practitioners in situations where the parents’ wishes conflict with the needs of the children.
We will consider the findings from this review and other reviews where the importance of viewing a situation through a whole family lens to ensure that parents’ needs do not overshadow those of the child has been highlighted. We will then consider the implications for practice.
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Self-care
Please note that the subject matter will include issues around harm and abuse, which we recognise can be emotive for some people. Please see the link below to the Public Protection Training Self-care pack. We would ask you to bear this in mind when you come along to the briefing, and if you need support before or after, please discuss with your line manager so that you can look after yourself during and after the briefing.