Recommendation LAMI-7: Establish local authority Management Board for Children and Families, ensuring staff training.
From Laming Inquiry — Final Report, published 28 January 2003.
Recommendation
The local authority chief executive should chair a Management Board for Services to Children and Families which will report to the Member Committee referred to above. The Management Board for Services to Children and Families must include senior officers from each of the key agencies. The Management Board must also establish strong links with community-based organisations that make significant contributions to local services for children and families. The Board must ensure staff working in the key agencies are appropriately trained and are able to demonstrate competence in their respective tasks. It will be responsible for the work currently undertaken by the Area Child Protection Committee.
Government response
No government response to this recommendation is on the record yet.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from the addressee has been found in the sources searched (last checked 27 February 2026). This is separate from the response above.
What other bodies have found
In their own words. These do not change the delivery statement above.
Thirlwall Inquiry legal team (27 February 2026)
The Government accepted this recommendation in principle, stating: Reformed and strengthened Area Child Protection Committees, to be called Local Safeguarding Children Boards, will be established on a statutory basis, with all the key agencies represented and having a duty to co-operate (paragraph 19).
The Local Safeguarding Children Boards Regulations 2006 placed LCSBs on a statutory footing from April 2006, and required key partner agencies to work together to improve safeguarding outcomes for children and young people. See also: Good practice by Local Safeguarding Children Boards.
Site note: The Thirlwall Inquiry legal team's own notes on implementation, from its Review of Implementation of Recommendations from Previous Inquiries into Healthcare Issues (version dated April 2025, published 27 February 2026). The review colours its Extent of Implementation cell for this recommendation green, which it uses to mark evidence, identified by the legal team and/or DHSC and NHS England, that a recommendation has been clearly implemented. Table row: section 7.2 No. 7, PDF page 161.
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Who has spoken
- Thirlwall Inquiry legal team
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