Recommendation LAMI-85: Develop continuing education models for deliberate harm diagnosis and multi-disciplinary child protection investigations.
From Laming Inquiry — Final Report, published 28 January 2003.
Recommendation
The Department of Health should invite the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to develop models of continuing education in the diagnosis and treatment of the deliberate harm of children, and in the multi-disciplinary aspects of a child protection investigation, to support the revalidation of doctors described in the preceding recommendation.
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: The Department of Health is supporting work by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to develop training materials on child protection through funding a two-year research fellow in association with the College. The College will take forward this work with the NSPCC, with a view to the training materials being available by the end of 2005 (paragraph 87).
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. 85, PDF page 166-167.
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Who has spoken
- Thirlwall Inquiry legal team
Finding