Emergency family notification

Inquiry recommendation

60match

IHRD-43 - GP Notification of Death Circumstances

Hyponatraemia Inquiry

A deceased's family GP should be notified promptly as to the circumstances of death to enable support to be offered in bereavement.

Matched on terms: family, notification

Inquiry recommendation

53match

LADB-4 - Review railway emergency planning, including survivor after-care and bereaved support

Ladbroke Grove Inquiry

The Railway Group should review emergency planning, including liaison with the emergency services, arrangements for the after-care of survivors and the provision of support and facilities for the bereaved and injured (para 4.122).

Matched on terms: emergency

Inquiry recommendation

53match

MACP-26 - Ensure Senior Investigating Officers provide comprehensive information and manage family liaison.

Macpherson Inquiry

That Senior Investigating Officers and Family Liaison Officers be made aware that good practice and their positive duty shall be the satisfactory management of family liaison, together with the provision to a victim's family of all possible information about the crime and its investigation.

Matched on terms: family

Inquiry recommendation

53match

MACP-23 - Ensure readily available designated and trained Family Liaison Officers at local level

Macpherson Inquiry

That Police Services should ensure that at local level there are readily available designated and trained Family Liaison Officers.

Matched on terms: family

Inquiry recommendation

52match

MACP-27 - Formally record and report all family requests and complaints to superior officers.

Macpherson Inquiry

That good practice shall provide that any request made by the family of a victim which is not acceded to, and any complaint by any member of the family, shall be formally recorded by the SIO and shall be reported to the immediate superior officer.

Matched on terms: family

Inquiry recommendation

48match

MACP-28 - Proactively use local minority ethnic contacts for family liaison assistance.

Macpherson Inquiry

That Police Services and Victim Support Services ensure that their systems provide for the pro-active use of local contacts within minority ethnic communities to assist with family liaison where appropriate.

Matched on terms: family

Inquiry recommendation

48match

MACP-25 - Dedicate Family Liaison Officers primarily or exclusively to their liaison task

Macpherson Inquiry

That Family Liaison Officers shall, where appointed, be dedicated primarily if not exclusively to that task.

Matched on terms: family

Inquiry recommendation

48match

MACP-24 - Include racism awareness and cultural diversity training for Family Liaison Officers

Macpherson Inquiry

That training of Family Liaison Officers must include training in racism awareness and cultural diversity, so that families are treated appropriately, professionally, with respect and according to their needs.

Matched on terms: family

Inquiry recommendation

44match

DM-5 - Separate SIO and Family Liaison Officer roles

Daniel Morgan Panel

The Metropolitan Police should ensure that the role of the Family Liaison Officer is never carried out by the Senior Investigating Officer of an investigation. There is an inherent conflict between these two roles.

Matched on terms: family

Inquiry recommendation

43match

LADB-3 - Establish common telephone numbers for public major incident information

Ladbroke Grove Inquiry

The police service, in co-operation with the emergency services, should use their best endeavours to ensure that common telephone numbers are issued for the use of members of the public who are seeking to give or obtain information about persons who have, or may have, been involved in a major incident (para 4.121).

Matched on terms: emergency

Inquiry recommendation

32match

FENN-153 - Agree common system for casualty identification and fatality documentation in London

Fennell Inquiry

A uniform documentation procedure for handling and receiving fatalities should be considered. In London all the services must meanwhile agree a common system for identification of casualties and recording the position in which they are found.

Matched on classifier match

Inquiry recommendation

32match

BAHA-16 - Death in Custody Checklist

Baha Mousa Inquiry

JDP 1-10 should include a simple checklist for actions on a death in custody. Where there is a death in custody, particularly one that is sudden or unexplained, prompt checks must be made on the welfare of other CPErS. The MoD should consider including guidance that where practicable the scene of the death should be preserved pending the...

Matched on classifier match

Inquiry recommendation

31match

F174 - Candour about harm

Mid Staffs Inquiry

Where death or serious harm has been or may have been caused to a patient by an act or omission of the organisation or its staff, the patient (or any lawfully entitled personal representative or other authorised person) should be informed of the incident, given full disclosure of the surrounding circumstances and be offered an appropriate level of...

Matched on classifier match

Inquiry recommendation

27match

LADB-2 - Extend computerisation to all police forces for shared information access

Ladbroke Grove Inquiry

Computerisation should be extended to all police forces, so that the information collated by each is readily available to all others (para 4.120).

Matched on classifier match

Inquiry recommendation

27match

LADB-1 - Computerise system for managing missing persons and casualty information

Ladbroke Grove Inquiry

The system for the reception of information about missing persons, casualties and survivors should be computerised. It should be possible for information which has been received to be entered directly into the computer and for information from it to be provided, to the extent appropriate, to callers. There should be a set procedure for the returning of a...

Matched on classifier match