Education

Recommendations related to education

27
Recommendations
56% accepted
Government Response
Accepted (14)Accepted in Part (1)Under Review (1)Awaiting Response (11)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 9 inquiries

Tagged Recommendations
27 total
SP57 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry
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.
Home Office
SP58 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry
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.
Department for Education
SP59 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry
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.
Department for Education
SP60 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry
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.
Department for Education
SP61 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry
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.
Lancashire County Council
SP62 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry
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.
Department for Education
SP63 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry
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.
Department for Education
SP64 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry
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.
Department for Education
SP65 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry
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.
Department for Education
SP66 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry
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.
Youth Justice Board for …
SP67 Response Pending
Southport Inquiry
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.
Law Commission
P2-24 Under Consideration
Fuller Inquiry
Anatomical education security and dignity policies
All organisations providing anatomical education and training using donors should make sure that policies and procedures are in place to ensure the security and dignity of donors. These should include: …
- The government stated in December 2025 that this recommendation on security of body donors in anatomical examination facilities was under consideration. Full government response …
Department of Health and…
P2-16 Accepted
Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Increase Masters-level fire engineering course places
That the government take urgent steps to increase the number of places on high-quality masters level courses in fire engineering accredited by the professional regulator. (113.25)
- The government accepted this recommendation in February 2025, recognising the value of increasing fire engineering master's level courses (Government Response to Grenfell Tower Inquiry …
UK Government
P2-19 Accepted
Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Review architect education and training for fire safety
We recognise that both the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have taken steps since the Grenfell Tower fire to improve the education and …
- ARB and RIBA accepted this recommendation in February 2025, noting both had taken steps since the Grenfell Tower fire to improve education and training …
ARB/RIBA
IBI-3a Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Medical Education - Curriculum
The General Medical Council, and NHS Education for Scotland, Health Education and Improvement Wales, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency and NHS England, should take steps to ensure that …
- The Government stated in December 2024 that a combined working group including NHS England, four-nation blood services, and statutory education bodies had been established …
UK Government GMC
IBI-3b Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Medical Education - Training Materials
They should look favourably upon putting together a package of training materials, with excerpts from oral and written testimony, to underpin what can happen in healthcare, and must be avoided …
- The Government stated in December 2024 that a Patient Safety Syllabus would incorporate Inquiry testimony through case studies and workshops, and that four-nation statutory …
UK Government GMC
IBI-3c Accepted
Infected Blood Inquiry
Inquiry Website Preservation
The Inquiry website is maintained online
- The Government stated in December 2024 that the transfer of the Inquiry website to The National Archives was underway, and that options to maintain …
UK Government
IBI-7d Accepted in Part
Infected Blood Inquiry
Training in Transfusion Medicine
Training in Transfusion Medicine: That those bodies concerned with undergraduate and postgraduate training across the UK of those people who are, or intend to be, working in the NHS ensure …
- The Government's implementation dashboard records this recommendation as: Accepted in principle by the UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government, Northern Ireland Executive (Infected Blood …
UK Government
ANG-22 Accepted
Angiolini Inquiry
Information and early intervention for men and boys
By September 2026, the Home Office, working closely with the Department for Education, the Ministry of Justice, and the Department of Health and Social Care, should increase and improve the …
- This is a Part 2 recommendation from the Angiolini Inquiry Part 2 First Report, published 2 December 2025, calling for increased and improved information, …
Home Office
IHRD-67 Accepted
Hyponatraemia Inquiry
Informing Teaching Authorities
Should findings from investigation or review imply inadequacy in current programmes of medical or nursing education then the relevant teaching authority should be informed.
Government reports this recommendation as delivered. Implementation status based on Department of Health NI Implementation Programme updates..
HSC Trusts
22 Accepted
Morecambe Bay Investigation
Recognise educational opportunities in smaller units
We believe that the educational opportunities afforded by smaller units, particularly in delivering a broad range of care with a high personal level of responsibility, have been insufficiently recognised and …
- In July 2015, the government stated: "We accept this recommendation in principle" and confirmed that Health Education England had established a working group to …
NHS England
F155 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Medical training
The General Medical Council should set out a standard requirement for routine visits to each local education provider, and programme in accordance with the following principles: The Postgraduate Dean should …
- The GMC published "Promoting Excellence: Standards for Medical Education and Training" in 2015, replacing "Tomorrow's Doctors" (2009) and "The Trainee Doctor" (2011). The standards …
GMC
F171 Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry
Deans
All Local Education and Training Boards should have a post of medically qualified postgraduate dean responsible for all aspects of postgraduate medical education.
- Health Education England established Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs) across England, each with a medically qualified postgraduate dean responsible for all aspects of …
NHS England
R16 Accepted
Bichard Inquiry
Interview training for headteachers
Head teachers and school governors should receive training on how to ensure that interviews to appoint staff reflect the importance of safeguarding children.
Government reports this recommendation as delivered. Safer recruitment training for headteachers and school governors implemented through the DfE's Safer Recruitment initiative.
DfES
R17 Accepted
Bichard Inquiry
Trained panel member requirement
From a date to be agreed, no interview panel to appoint staff working in schools should be convened without at least one member being properly trained.
Government reports this recommendation as delivered. Requirement for at least one trained panel member on school interview panels implemented.
DfES
R18 Accepted
Bichard Inquiry
Inspection of school recruitment
The relevant inspection bodies should, as part of their inspection, review the existence and effectiveness of a school's selection and recruitment arrangements.
Government reports this recommendation as delivered. Ofsted incorporated review of school selection and recruitment arrangements into its inspection framework.
DfES
R21 Accepted
Bichard Inquiry
Enhanced Disclosure for school staff
All posts, including those in schools, that involve working with children, and vulnerable adults, should be subject to the Enhanced Disclosure regime.
Government reports this recommendation as delivered. Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 received Royal Assent.
Home Office