Corporate data issues
Corporate metrics failing to adequately measure programme progress, especially in the context of significant business and customer data risks.
91 items
1 source
21 inquiries
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Corporate data issues has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
91 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (91) — showing 50 strongest matches
22 — Surface plan of the undertaking
Recommendation: Mine owners and managers should be obliged to maintain and keep at the local office an up to date plan of the surface area of the undertaking, such plan to be contoured when the height of the tip exceeds, say, …
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23 — Databases to highlight trends in reported faults
Recommendation: Databases should be programmed to determine and highlight statistically significant trends in faults reported and to display such information to managers and maintenance staff (para 16.9).
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22 — Fault databases to log repeat faults
Recommendation: Fault data bases (including RAVERS) should ensure that repeat faults are logged and that a 28 day history of defects is available to managers and maintenance staff (para 16.9).
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19 — Automatic records of verbal reports in control centres
Recommendation: Appropriate procedures for receiving and making an automatic record of verbal reports should exist in all control centres, similar to the facilities installed by GWT in 1998 (Para 9.14).
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7 — National qualification and accreditation system for drivers
Recommendation: Railtrack together with ATOC should establish a national qualification and accreditation system for drivers including centrally held records to be available to the current employer (paras 5.5, 16.5).
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2 — Evidence from CIRAS and on-train data recorders
Recommendation: Evidence should include that to be provided by CIRAS and from On-Train Data Recorders used to monitor driver behaviour. ASLEF in particular should give their full support to such an initiative (paras 14.23, 14.25, 15.15, 16.3).
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22 — Record rough riding reports
Recommendation: Reports of rough riding should be recorded systematically in order to ensure accuracy of response, and to allow the information recorded to be used to assist monitoring the condition of the infrastructure.
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4 — Reporting loose and missing nuts
Recommendation: The requirements for reporting loose and missing nuts on adjustable stretcher bars should be reviewed. This review should consider the need for fault reporting systems to distinguish between different types of stretcher bars.
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55 — Specify retained material in reports
Recommendation: Coroners shall ensure that all existing retained organs, tissue, blocks, slides, photographs and X-rays are specified within any preliminary and final post mortem reports.
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126 — Control of interview tapes
Recommendation: Clear arrangements should be made to secure the control and custody of any audio-tapes or video-tapes of interviews with children (17.68).
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10 — Faster discharge reports and annual survey
Recommendation: FRL should publish their annual reports more rapidly in future. There should, as recommended by the Royal Commission, be one comprehensive annual survey published of all discharges and at intervals, reports by NRPB on radiation exposure (para 10.126).
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FP74 — Recommendation 74
Recommendation: The SPSA should develop a procedure for the provision of information to COPFS where issues have been raised about the performance of an examiner who may be required to report or give evidence. COPFS should provide SPSA with guidance as …
No response yet
FP63 — Recommendation 63
Recommendation: In the event of a challenge to an identification the defence should disclose the full reasons why it believes that the SPSA examiners’ opinions are incorrect. This may require the disclosure of marked up images of mark and print with …
No response yet
FP61 — Recommendation 61
Recommendation: Fingerprint examiners engaged by the defence should be afforded access to any other images of the mark or fingerprint forms as are available to SPSA and COPFS. If negatives are available, arrangements should be made on request to provide the …
No response yet
FP60 — Recommendation 60
Recommendation: Fingerprint examiners engaged by the defence should be afforded access to the same material as that used by SPSA, in appropriate examination or laboratory conditions.
No response yet
FP59 — Recommendation 59
Recommendation: Each examiner’s separate opinion should cover: (i) the images of the mark and also the specific print used in the comparison; (ii) the examiner’s opinion about the quality of the mark; (iii) if the examiner considers the mark to be …
No response yet
FP58 — Recommendation 58
Recommendation: The joint report prepared should be supported by the production of the individual opinions. It should be a matter for the Crown and defence to determine whether the joint report would suffice in a given case, or whether examiners should …
No response yet
FP56 — Recommendation 56
Recommendation: The following information should always be provided to the Crown: (i) a list of names of all examiners who have examined the mark at SPSA and their opinions as to the mark and the comparison; (ii) whether the complex marks …
No response yet
FP55 — Recommendation 55
Recommendation: SPSA and COPFS should agree and implement, as a matter of urgency, a process for the provision of information by SPSA to COPFS. COPFS should provide SPSA with information and advice as to the Crown’s duty of disclosure with a …
No response yet
FP54 — Recommendation 54
Recommendation: The omission of the SPSA from the statutory scheme of disclosure under sections 117 to 120 inclusive of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 should be reviewed. The SPSA should be regarded as having the same duties as …
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FP52 — Recommendation 52
Recommendation: Where notes are required as a result of the preceding recommendations, the notes should be taken at each stage of ACE-V by every examiner involved in the process at that stage and should cover the following matters: (i) the assessment …
No response yet
FP51 — Recommendation 51
Recommendation: Notes should be taken in any case in which a fresh comparison is made in response to a request from the Crown for a report.
No response yet
FP50 — Recommendation 50
Recommendation: Examiners should always take notes when they are examining marks that they consider to be complex.
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FP49 — Recommendation 49
Recommendation: The audit trail for a mark should be available to the Crown if requested.
No response yet
FP48 — Recommendation 48
Recommendation: Any discussions between examiners (including any consultation with an examiner not directly involved in the comparison of the mark in question) at any stage of ACE-V should be recorded.
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FP47 — Recommendation 47
Recommendation: A record should be kept for each mark which (i) shows whether or not it has been regarded as suitable for comparison; (ii) lists all prints with which it has been compared.
No response yet
FP46 — Recommendation 46
Recommendation: Any image(s) studied by the examiner in making an identification should be provided to the Crown on request together with the remainder of the selection of images.
No response yet
FP45 — Recommendation 45
Recommendation: The selection of images provided to the examiner, the image chosen for comparison work and the photographic negatives, if any, should all be recorded as part of the audit trail.
No response yet
FP44 — Recommendation 44
Recommendation: The method used by scene of crime examiners to detect and record a mark should be recorded as part of the audit trail for that mark.
No response yet
FP40 — Recommendation 40
Recommendation: Any adjustments made to a photographic print should be recorded as part of the audit trail.
No response yet
FP39 — Recommendation 39
Recommendation: In relation to digital images: (i) the digital original should be stored separately; (ii) any digital image processing should be carried out only on accurate replicas of the digital original; (iii) any adjustments made to the digital image should be …
No response yet
FP38 — Recommendation 38
Recommendation: Fingerprint photographers should provide an examiner with a selection of images of a mark.
No response yet
FP8 — Recommendation 8
Recommendation: The SPSA should consider what limited information is required from the police or other sources for fingerprint examiners to carry out their work, only such information should be provided to examiners, and the information provided should be recorded.
No response yet
7 — Data reporting
Recommendation: i. All hospitals with a neonatal unit should name a ‘lead reporter’ with responsibility for inputting data regularly (at least weekly) and reviewing real-time data viewers on neonatal and maternity units in the MBRRACE system. Whilst the lead reporter does …
Words of: Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, oral statement to the House of Commons, 15 September 2026 (text as published on GOV.UK)
Gov response: The report also makes recommendations for the regulators, including CQC, which we will ensure are taken seriously, and on technology. We have implemented the maternity outcome signal system, which provides near real-time safety alerts, but …
Response Unclear
FR-17 — Code of Practice on Records Access
Recommendation: The Inquiry recommends that the UK government directs the Information Commissioner's Office to introduce a code of practice on retention of and access to records known to relate to child sexual abuse. The retention period for records known to relate …
Words of: HM Government, Government response to the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (CP 844), presented to Parliament by the Home Secretary, May 2023
Gov response: We accept the importance of access to records. We will engage with the Information Commissioner’s Office on implementing this recommendation.
Accepted in part
In progress
80 — National register of public liability insurance
Recommendation: The Department for Work and Pensions should work with the Association of British Insurers to introduce a national register of public liability insurance policies. The register should provide details of the relevant organisation, the name of the insurer, all relevant …
Words of: HM Government, The Government response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's Accountability and Reparations Investigation Report, published by the Ministry of Justice, 6 April 2020
Gov response: The Government has begun and will continue discussions with the Association of British Insurers (ABI) on the feasibility of establishing a public liability register. It will also be important for this work to be co-ordinated …
Noted
No update 2+ yrs
75 — Register of public liability insurers
Recommendation: The Chair and Panel recommend that the Association of British Insurers (ABI) considers whether a register of public liability insurers could be introduced to assist claimants in child sexual abuse cases in locating the insurers relevant to their claim, and …
No response yet
FR-1 — Single Core Data Set
Recommendation: The Inquiry recommends that the UK government and the Welsh Government improve data collected by children's social care and criminal justice agencies concerning child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation by the introduction of one single core data set covering …
Words of: HM Government, Government response to the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (CP 844), presented to Parliament by the Home Secretary, May 2023
Gov response: We accept that robust data collection on the scale and nature of child sexual abuse is critical to underpin and drive a more effective response to child sexual abuse. We have made a number of …
Accepted in part
In progress
1 — Collect disaggregated CSE data
Recommendation: Police forces and local authorities in England and Wales must collect data on all cases of known or suspected child sexual exploitation and child sexual exploitation by networks. These data should be separated from other data sets, including data on …
Words of: HM Government, Child sexual exploitation by organised networks report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: government response, published by the Home Office, 27 July 2022
Gov response: 27. The Home Office recognises the importance of robust data collection on suspects and offenders to inform problem profiling and activities to disrupt and investigate offenders. That is why we are working with police to …
Noted
No update 2+ yrs
31 — Prevent in-service failure of train-borne safety equipment
Recommendation: Efforts should be concentrated on ensuring that AWS and other train-borne safety equipment does not fail in service through preventable causes. This should include regular replacements of equipment, maintenance of full service records and provision for full traceability of repairable …
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29 — Maintenance to check history of reported defects
Recommendation: Maintenance procedures should require checking of the history of reported defects, including repeat faults, and the taking of appropriate action (paras 6.14, 15.6).
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28 — Flow-chart of the sources of repair work
Recommendation: Maintenance staff should be provided with a flow-chart to show the derivation of all sources of repair work, to include RAVERS (with check on repeat items) and appropriate structure for Request, Repair Book and Maintenance Control items (para 15.16).
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24 — GWT records of maintenance staff competencies
Recommendation: GWT should maintain full records of competencies for all maintenance staff as required by job descriptions and safety responsibility statements (paras 6.8, 15.6).
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68 — No special forms on removal
Recommendation: No special forms need be required when a child is removed to a place of safety but where occasion permits the Reception into Care Forms should be completed as far as possible to reflect the information available (16.42).
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59 — OASys assessor access to prior behaviour
Recommendation: OASys assessors should have access to information relating to prisoners’ behaviour while serving previous sentences and to information held in security files.
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58 — OASys use in all establishments
Recommendation: OASys should be used by all establishments to identify the risks posed by prisoners to staff and other inmates, and the risks which are identified should be fed back to the wings.
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57 — Register showing proportion of high-risk prisoners
Recommendation: The register of prisoners assessed as high or medium risk should identify what proportion of the establishment’s population those prisoners represent.
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49 — Officer responsible for information flow
Recommendation: Every establishment should appoint an officer not below the grade of governor to be responsible for overseeing the flow of information. Such an officer should ensure that systems are in place for the transfer of information within an establishment and …
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46 — Completing discharge reports
Recommendation: The discharge report which used to be prepared on prisoners on their discharge should be completed as a matter of course, and a copy included in their main prison file. It should be accessible on NOMIS when NOMIS becomes operational.
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44 — Vetting administrative section documents
Recommendation: Documents held in an establishment’s administrative section should be vetted by staff from the Security Department, and each establishment should have a protocol for that work along the lines of the system for vetting security files.
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