LAMI-99 Response Historic AI-assessed

Amend Working Together for police to exclusively conduct child criminal investigations.

Recommendation

The Working Together arrangements must be amended to ensure the police carry out completely, and exclusively, any criminal investigation elements in a case of suspected injury or harm to a child, including the evidential interview with a child victim. This will remove any confusion about which agency takes the ‘lead’ or is responsible for certain actions.

Published Evidence Summary
The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:
No specific published evidence has been identified detailing amendments made to the "Working Together" arrangements to ensure the police exclusively conduct criminal investigation elements, including evidential interviews with child victims, in cases of suspected harm to a child. The provided search results on gov.uk for "Laming Inquiry recommendation implementation" and "working together arrangements" are too broad to indicate specific changes to the guidance in response to this recommendation.
How was this assessed?
Assessed by gemini-2.5-flash on 19 Mar 2026
Checked data held on this site (government responses, progress updates, independent evidence)
External sources searched: www.gov.uk, www.legislation.gov.uk, hansard.parliament.uk
This recommendation requires implementation across many organisations. The assessment reflects central policy response, not adoption in individual organisations.
Jurisdiction
UK-wide
Response
Historic

No government response recorded.

Source
Report Laming Inquiry — Final Report 28 Jan 2003
Recommendation age 23.2 yrs
Last formal update No formal updates