Recommendation LAMI-90: Ensure child protection training for liaison staff and audit policy compliance.
From Laming Inquiry — Final Report, published 28 January 2003.
Recommendation
Liaison between hospitals and community health services plays an important part in protecting children from deliberate harm. The Department of Health must ensure that those working in such liaison roles receive child protection training. Compliance with child protection policies and procedures must be subject to regular audit by primary care trusts.
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 Government is funding the preparation of multi-agency training materials to support the implementation of Government guidance, following the publication of the booklet What To Do If You’re Worried A Child Is Being Abused (paragraph 87). A revision of the Children Act 1989 guidance will include two volumes of core guidance accompanied by additional supplementaries. The core guidance to organisations will cover safe transfer from hospital to community in the context of interagency working and follow up (paragraphs 53-55).
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. 90, PDF page 167.
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Who has spoken
- Thirlwall Inquiry legal team
Finding