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Case review

At the end of this subject, the participants will be able to:

1. Recognize the importance of case management including

supervision and case conference;
2. Understand the essence of critical analysis that is
necessary before the filing of a case in court;
3. Be able to know how to find and organize problem in a
specific case for evaluation, decision making and finding for an
effective solution;
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At the end of this subject, the participants will be able to:

4. Be aware at looking at similarities and

differences between two or more situations they are
considering and ask over whether there are
necessary and sufficient condition to produce the
same result; and
5. Know the importance of the way agencies
work together and taking actions to try and remedy
whatever mistakes have been made in a certain
situation/case.
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1. What is Case review?

Detailed analysis and intensive study of a certain case

under investigation that stresses factors contributing to its
success or failure.

2. What is the Purpose of Case Review?

The purpose of case review is to ascertain what lessons

can be learned for the way agencies work together and also
to take actions to try and remedy whatever mistakes have
been made about a certain situation or case.
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3. What is Case Management?

Ability to “queue” matters to different individuals and

agencies so as the cases can be monitored and nothing falls
between the “cracks”.

Case creation – define the elements of the case,

parties involved, nature of the investigation and the
case stages and statuses of interest. It also
correlates related cases so that the investigator can
get a fuller picture on the case or person of interest.
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Event tracking and Case history – define the

type of events or actions on the case that must
be tracked as the case moves along. Events
may include investigative activities like interviews
and other forms of research, progress reports,
responses, correspondence, scheduling for
specific appointments, dispositions, referrals to
other agencies etc. (e.g., Cooperation and
coordination between the investigator and
prosecutor before filing the case)
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4. How it is done?
a. Case Conference
A conference purposely to bring the
investigation process together particularly serious
matters/cases and ensure that the investigation is
being carried out in a timely fashion.
It may done face to face or virtually as
mediated by communication technology such as
telephone conference call or video conference to
produce a product or substantial/concrete result
for a decision.
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Purpose:
 It will receive the report of the lead investigation officers and other reports
that might have been requested for action.
 Sharing of information and reaching an agreement between agencies/units
involved.
If the investigation has not been fully completed, the meeting should:
 Review what has happened
 Review the Interim Plan and firm it up into an actual safeguarding
plan
 Record the need for further investigation
 Record the outcome for the victim, perpetrator and for other services
 Record the feedback to relevant parties not present at the meeting
the things to be carried out
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Safeguarding Plan - collection of actions to be taken to ensure the

victim’s safety and is recorded as the action plan of the case conference
covering the following points:
Specific action plan to protect the victim from the perpetrator
Legal remedies to be used to make the victim safe
b. Critical Case Analysis?
 Aims to find and organize the problem in a specific case and
evaluate a piece or body of work in a field and to breakdown
the piece and study the parts.
 Task is to allocate the central issue of the presented problem
for key decision makers to find an effective solution.
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Question of Logic

If someone claims that because a certain theory

applies to one situation, it will automatically apply to
another. You may need to apply critical analysis and
show that even though the theory does not apply in the
first case, there is sufficient evidence to assume that it
will work in the other case. It is wrong to use a
particular instance to make a general claim.