Public Inquiry Recommendations

Showing 67 of 1,601 recommendations from Southport Inquiry — page 2 of 2

What these recommendations are about — Southport Inquiry

Key themes in this inquiry: Care safeguarding systems · Staff training and development · Missed Child Safeguarding Referrals · Weapon Component Misuse Oversight · Harmful Algorithmic Content Promotion .
Report published 2026 — 67 recommendations across this inquiry.
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SP51 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
GMMH local structured risk assessment responsibility
At the local level, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust should liaise with all of the relevant community healthcare organisations (including Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Criminal …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP52 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
National guidance on structured risk assessments
Nationally, the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England should review: 1. Whether there is a need for further development and guidance including on the thresholds for when …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP53 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
GMMH and Alder Hey joint SMART audit
At the local level, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust should by no later than 13 October 2026 carry out and report …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP54 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
National guidance on SMART action points
Nationally, the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England should consider whether nationwide guidance should be issued on the importance of action points from all relevant meetings involving …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP55 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
Community mental health services for violence-fixated children
Phase 2 should consider the ability of community and forensic mental health services to deliver clinical interventions to mitigate the risk from violence fixated children and young people.
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP56 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
Mental health assessment powers for isolated children
Phase 2 should consider whether further legislative change is required to allow mental health clinicians to assess children and young people who are isolated from professional support and may pose …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP57 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
Agencies to respect school insight on risk
The Home Office (for police forces nationwide) Counter Terrorism Police Headquarters (for Prevent), Department of Health and Social Care (for all healthcare providers) and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP58 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
KCSIE 2026 safeguarding information transfer
The Department for Education, in finalising the Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance 2026, and in any necessary amendments to other policy and guidance, should ensure that: 1. In cases …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP59 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
Audit of safeguarding information transfer between schools
The Department for Education should carry out an audit to ensure that safeguarding information is reliably being passed between schools and should consider what further role Ofsted may play to …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP60 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
School safeguarding recording systems
The Department for Education should ensure (either by direct guidance or through Ofsted) that all schools are required to record safeguarding information in a system that is fit for purpose.
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP61 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
LCC education provision and attendance audit
Lancashire County Council should, by no later than 13 October 2026, carry out and report on an audit (preferably involving an experienced independent external member) to review: 1. The speed …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP62 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
Guidance on LEA and police visits to absent children
The Department for Education and the Home Office should review whether further guidance and/or minimum guidance is required in relation to local education authority and police visits to children not …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP63 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
Improved school Prevent training
The Department for Education should ensure that (i) its own policy guidance for teachers and schools (outside the Statutory Guidance for which the Home Office is responsible) is strengthened; and …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP64 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
Review of school attendance monitoring guidance
The Department for Education should undertake a targeted review, engaging with a representative sample of local authorities, to check both that the current (improved) guidance is now sufficient and understood …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP65 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
Remedial steps for failing education authorities
The Department for Education should consider what remedial steps can be put in place to assist in circumstances where, whether through underfunding or underperformance, local education authorities are failing to …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP66 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
Guidance for parents of children found with weapons
The Youth Justice Board should ensure that a form of clear practical written guidance is drafted which relevant professionals (social care, healthcare, police, education) can provide to parents of children …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
SP67 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry (2026)
Law Commission review of duty to warn/report
The Law Commission should be asked to review the merits of legal reform concerning whether specified categories of persons ought to be under a legal duty to warn about, or …
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.