Recommendation LAMI-15: Require local boards to provide and evaluate inter-agency training for staff
From Laming Inquiry — Final Report, published 28 January 2003.
Recommendation
The newly created local Management Boards for Services to Children and Families should be required to ensure training on an inter-agency basis is provided. The effectiveness of this should be evaluated by the government inspectorates. Staff working in the relevant agencies should be required to demonstrate that their practice with respect to inter-agency working is up to date by successfully completing appropriate training courses.
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: A review of training is currently being undertaken to be completed by the end of September 2003. The review will examine this issue and make recommendations about future inter-agency training (paragraphs 88-90).
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 does not colour its Extent of Implementation cell for this recommendation green; it leaves the cell uncoloured where a recommendation was rejected, where evidence of implementation was insufficient, or where steps had been taken but implementation was not yet complete. Table row: section 7.2 No. 15, PDF page 163-164.
Who has spoken
- Thirlwall Inquiry legal team
Finding