{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-safeguarding-children-boards-wales-regulations-2006/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-safeguarding-children-boards-wales-regulations-2006/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/1705",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Safeguarding Children Boards (Wales) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-safeguarding-children-boards-wales-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Serious case reviews",
  "text": "(1) A Board must undertake a review (a “serious case review”) in accordance with this regulation in any of the following cases where, within the area of the Board, abuse or neglect of a child is known or suspected, and—\n(a) a child has died, or\n(b) has sustained a potentially life-threatening injury, or\n(c) has sustained serious and permanent impairment of health or development.\n(2) A Board may undertake a serious case review in accordance with this regulation where a child within its area suffers harm which does not fall within paragraphs 1(a)(b) or (c).\n(3) The purpose of a serious case review is to identify steps that might be taken to prevent a similar death or harm occurring.\n(4) In carrying out a serious case review, a Board must—\n(a) ask each representative body to provide the Board with a written report of its involvement with the child who is the subject of the review, unless the Board is of the opinion that such a report is unnecessary in the circumstances;\n(b) following receipt of each report referred to in sub-paragraph (a), produce a written report (referred to in these Regulations as an “overview report”) that—\n(i) identifies steps to be taken to reduce the risk of a similar death or harm occurring; and\n(ii) recommends the time by which, and identifies the persons by whom, those steps should be performed;\n(c) produce an anonymised summary of each overview report and make it available for inspection at the Board’s principal office.\n(5) The Board must provide the National Assembly for Wales with a copy of—\n(a) each report provided by a representative body in accordance with paragraph (4)(a) above;\n(b) each anonymised summary; and\n(c) each overview report.\n(6) The Board must provide each representative body with a copy of—\n(a) each anonymised summary; and\n(b) unless the Board considers it inappropriate, each overview report.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/1705/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:23.951085+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}