Recommendation LAMI-30: Directors must ensure senior managers regularly inspect children's social services case files

From Laming Inquiry — Final Report, published 28 January 2003.

Recommendation

Directors of social services must ensure that senior managers inspect, at least once every three months, a random selection of case files and supervision notes.

Jurisdiction: UK-wide

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.

Source

Inquiry Laming Inquiry

Report Laming Inquiry — Final Report 28 Jan 2003

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Themes and tags

Care safeguarding systems Underinvestment in Children's Social Care Public protection planning No open learning culture

Recommendation made 23.7 years ago