Part 1: Children Chapter 2: Safeguarding of children Section 14: Events to be notified to the Panel
This section adds a new section 16C into the Children Act 2004. References to subsections below are to subsections in that new section.
	Subsection (1) requires local authorities in England to notify the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel of certain events relating to children which occur in their area. These events relate to circumstances where a local authority in England knows or suspects that a child has been abused or neglected, and the child:
dies or is seriously harmed in the local authority’s area, or
dies or is seriously harmed outside England but while normally resident in the local authority’s area.
	Subsection (2) sets out the requirement for a Local Authority in England to have regard to any guidance issued by the Secretary of State in connection with its functions under this section.
	Subsection (3) defines what is meant by ‘serious harm’ for the purposes of this section.