Recommendation LAMI-74: Mandate full, documented physical examination within 24 hours for suspected deliberate harm.

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

Recommendation

Any child admitted to hospital about whom there are concerns about deliberate harm must receive a full and fully-documented physical examination within 24 hours of their admission, except when doing so would, in the opinion of the examining doctor, compromise the child’s care or the child’s physical and emotional well-being.

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 Missed Child Safeguarding Referrals

Recommendation made 23.7 years ago