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Supporting Learning from Statutory Reviews

To learn more about the processes for conducting a number of different types of statutory review, alongside insights concerning the governance and writing of these reviews, follow this link to access a recently published guide by the team 

A Brief Guide to Statutory Reviews 

Overview

  • The Reviews Team within the VKPP conducts analyses of different types of statutory safeguarding review, in order to extract overarching themes and learning for the police.
  • At present, the workstream is engaging in activity to explore the quality of reviews, alongside exploring governance arrangements within forces concerning statutory reviews.

Aims

  • The workstream aims to strengthen the system for learning from statutory reviews through research, guidance, and community building activity.
  • The present objectives include a focus on:
    • Facilitating and enhancing networking activity across policing review teams to share learning and good practice.
    • Providing guidance for the police to enhance the quality of individual management reviews.
    • Exploring governance arrangements within forces to implement the learning from statutory reviews.

Impact

VKPP activity and learning in this area has:

  • Informed local practice improvements, via Heads of Public Protection.
  • Been shared nationally through briefings, reports, and presentations to policing and other bodies, including the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel and HMICFRS.
  • Influenced resources for policing in responding to individuals experiencing vulnerability and exploitation.
  • Informed inputs and training provided to police review officers and public protection safeguarding leaders.

Resources

The team have produced a number of reports and briefings analysing different types of statutory review to extract key learning for policing.

Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) Serious Case Reviews

Meta Analysis 2020 | Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme

Spotlight briefings consolidating learning from a number of different types of statutory review.

Spotlight Briefings 

Other Briefings

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