Recommendation LAMI-38: Ensure inter-departmental case transfers are recorded and confirmed in writing

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

Recommendation

Directors of social services must ensure that the transfer of responsibility of a case between local authority social services departments is always recorded on the case file of each authority, and is confirmed in writing by the authority to which responsibility for the case has been transferred.

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

Recommendation made 23.7 years ago