Recommendation SP48: Training on Child and Youth Justice Service
From The Southport Inquiry Report: Phase 1, published 13 April 2026.
Recommendation
1. Lancashire County Council should ensure that staff within Children and Family Wellbeing Service, and Children’s Social Care receive training on the services available through the Child and Youth Justice Service, including prior to any court or out of court disposals such as Prevention and Diversion.
2. Lancashire County Council should offer input on this topic to Lancashire Constabulary, Counter Terrorism Policing North West, and any relevant Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry asked Lancashire County Council to provide training on youth justice services. In July 2026, HM Government stated that it had written to all national, regional and local organisations responsible for delivery to highlight the findings of the Inquiry (Home Office response, Jul 2026). It noted that twenty-seven recommendations require delivery by bodies sitting outside central government (Home Office response, Jul 2026). It also stated that it will work closely with these organisations to support delivery and report on progress alongside central government recommendations (Home Office response, Jul 2026). The record holds nothing dated later than the response of July 2026 (Home Office response, Jul 2026).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 2 Oct 2026. The record below is the sources' own words.
Government response
There are a further 27 recommendations that require delivery by organisations that sit outside central government. The government has written to all national, regional and local organisations responsible for delivering recommendations to highlight the findings of the Inquiry. The government will continue to work closely with these organisations to facilitate and support on delivery of these recommendations, and will report, as far as possible, on delivery of these recommendations alongside progress on the recommendations for central government.
How this response relates to the recommendation
Site note: The source gives this passage once, for paragraph 18, the 27 recommendations it says require delivery by organisations that sit outside central government. The response does not list those 27 or name this recommendation; the site places it in the group because the recommendation is addressed to a body outside central government. The same words are recorded on SP19, SP37, SP40, SP41, SP42, SP43, SP44, SP46, SP48, SP49 and SP61.
Blanket government agreement does not establish acceptance or delivery by each addressee. Some response passages cover groups of recommendations.
Scope of the government response
The government's response to Phase 1 (CP 1623, 2 July 2026) agreed with all 67 recommendations in one sentence, and names only 39 of them individually. Where a recommendation is not named, the response shown is the passage the response gives for the group it belongs to (the recommendations for organisations outside central government, or the recommendations to policing bodies), which is not a response to that recommendation alone; the response does not list the members of any group. The 10 recommendations for Phase 2 of the Inquiry to consider show no response: the response introduces them (paragraph 20) but answers none of them. The government accepts the recommendations that are for central government to deliver. Where a recommendation is for an organisation outside central government, the government's agreement is not that organisation's acceptance.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from Lancashire County Council has been found in the sources searched (last checked 2 July 2026). This is separate from the response above.
Responsible bodies
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Who has spoken
- Home Office
Response