LAMI-98 Response Historic

Social services must inform police immediately of child criminal offence referrals.

Recommendation

The guideline set out at paragraph 5.8 of Working Together must be strictly adhered to: whenever social services receive a referral which may constitute a criminal offence against a child, they must inform the police at the earliest opportunity.

Published Evidence Summary
The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
Sources
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Jurisdiction
UK-wide
Response
Historic

No government response recorded.

Source
Inquiry Laming Inquiry
Report Laming Inquiry — Final Report 28 Jan 2003
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Themes & Tags
Care safeguarding systems Missed Child Safeguarding Referrals Police investigation management
Recommendation age 23.3 yrs
Last formal update No formal updates