Recommendation 51: Instruction on completing form XF001
From Report of the Zahid Mubarek inquiry (Volumes I and II), published 29 June 2006.
Recommendation
Staff who are tasked with completing form XF001 should be instructed on how to complete it by a senior officer. In particular, they should be reminded that they are only assessing the risk prisoners pose to other inmates. They should not automatically assess prisoners as a high risk simply because they claim, for example, to be prone to lose their temper, but should ignore such claims if they believe them to be untrue, and they should guard against being over-defensive.
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 7 March 2026). This is separate from the response above.