Staff policy awareness
Absence of a system to confirm that all staff have read and understood existing, updated, or new policies, procedures, and guidance documents.
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86match
38 - Government department safeguarding policy reviews
The Cabinet Office must ensure that each government department reviews its child safeguarding policy or policies in light of the expert witness report of Professor Thoburn. There must also be published procedures to accompany their policies, in order that staff know how to enact their department's policy. All government departments must update their safeguarding policies and procedures regularly,...
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77match
39 - Political party safeguarding policies
All political parties registered with the Electoral Commission in England and Wales must ensure that they have a comprehensive safeguarding policy. All political parties must also ensure that they have procedures to accompany their policies, in order that politicians, prospective politicians, staff and volunteers know how to enact their party's policy, which must be published online. All political...
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70match
16 - Drivers and staff to use formal fault reporting
Railtrack and TOCs must impress on drivers and other staff the need to use formal fault reporting procedures where the Rules so provide, and that the duty to report a fault must be performed personally and the report delivered to the person or body identified in the Rules, and not to any other person or body (paras 7.9,...
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Inquiry recommendation
70match
8 - Inform staff of procedure in force
The Chief Executive and Trust Board shall inform all staff when a Serious Incident Procedure is in force.
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Inquiry recommendation
70match
5 - Consult crews and train on testing policy
Owners and operators should discuss all these questions with representatives of officers and crews before they are included in contracts and they should embark on an education and training programme for all employees in order to ensure that they understand the policy, the mechanics of the testing procedures and the consequences of failing to comply with it.
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69match
76 - Time to read mental disorder booklet
Profiled time should be set aside for staff to read the booklet explaining the main components of the mental health awareness training course. The booklet should include advice given on the course about how prisoners with particular disorders should be managed on the wing. That advice should be published and made freely available.
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65match
38 - Display of issued permits to work
Copies of all issued permits to work should be displayed at a convenient location and in a systematic arrangement such that process operating staff can readily see and check which equipment is under maintenance and not available for operation (para 18.8).
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64match
19 - Revise basic visual inspection procedures
The planning, operating, and recording of basic visual inspection procedures, as prescribed in RT/CE/S/103, should be reviewed. Revised Track Inspection Sheets and Track Patrol procedure documents should be produced that: • Mandate the exact procedures that staff are required to follow. • Include instructions as to how recording and signing should be carried out, particularly in terms of...
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13 - Awareness of emergency plan responsibilities
It is essential that those who would be required to take action under the Windscale emergency plan are fully aware of the responsibilities the plan places on them (para 11.30).
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57match
47 - Model procedure for external report comments
The Prison Service should publish a model procedure dealing with how establishments should bring Prison Service Orders and other instructions, whether national or local, which affect the management of prisoners to the attention of staff. The model procedure should be regarded as having been adopted by any establishment which does not produce one of its own.
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57match
FP75 - Recommendation 75
COPFS should ensure that appropriate written guidance as to fingerprint evidence is available to its staff. COPFS should also ensure that a sufficient number of lawyers fully conversant with fingerprint evidence are available to deal with any issues that may arise.
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57match
42 - Church in Wales provincial safeguarding officers
The Church in Wales should make clear that the operational advice of provincial safeguarding officers must be followed by all members of the clergy and other Church officers. It should be enshrined in policy that those who are volunteers and who do not follow the directions of provincial safeguarding officers should be removed from working with children.
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57match
F9 - Fundamental standards of behaviour
The NHS Constitution should include reference to all the relevant professional and managerial codes by which NHS staff are bound, including the Code of Conduct for NHS Managers.
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57match
F7 - Clarity of values and principles
All NHS staff should be required to enter into an express commitment to abide by the NHS values and the Constitution, both of which should be incorporated into the contracts of employment.
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53match
51 - Review Catholic safeguarding policies manual
The Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Service should review its policies and procedures manual and the documents within it to ensure that they are consistent, easier to follow and more accessible.
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53match
BAHA-19 - JDP 1-10 Redraft Clarity
In the current redrafting of JDP 1-10 and in future subordinate doctrine and instructions regarding CPERS: (1) plain English, simplicity of structure and brevity should be given greater priority while allowing for the target audience and complexity of the subject matter; (2) the wording should be thoroughly assessed to ensure (a) that material is not unnecessarily duplicated and...
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11 - Avoid using several documents for one operational issue
The use of more than one document (whether Rules, Group Standards or otherwise) to cover a single operational issue should be avoided, save where proper reasons exist for use of multiple sources (para 15.9).
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27 - Guidance on signals-on control
The signallers at Kings Cross PSB should be provided with guidance to ensure that they have a clear understanding of the circumstances in which the signals-on control is to be used.
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49match
27 - Guidelines as guidance, not mandatory rules
While guidelines should be available for practitioners working in cases of child sexual abuse they should not be mandatory rules but guidance for normal procedure (15.55-56).
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49match
30 - Amend Canon C30 on safeguarding due regard
The Church of England should amend the current canon requiring clerics to comply with the Bishop's Guidance on Safeguarding. The use of the words 'due regard' in Canon C30 is an acceptable term of art, but lacks sufficient clarity. Very few individuals who gave evidence to the Inquiry said they understood what this meant, including the Archbishop of...
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45match
15 - Emphasise compliance with the Rule Book
All parties must emphasise the need to comply with the Rule Book and must not condone departures (para 7.9).
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10 - Rules and Group Standards clear and unambiguous
Railtrack must ensure that Rules and Group Standards applicable to operators, including drivers, are clear and unambiguous. In particular, Railtrack should urgently complete the review of operating Rules to ensure they are workable in the privatised, fragmented industry (para 16.6).
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12 - Common understanding of Rule Book clause 3.3
Signallers and technicians should have a common understanding of the types of work that are permissible under Clause 3.3 of Module T1A of the Rule Book GE/RT8000.
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45match
1 - Review stretcher bar nut guidance
The effectiveness of the guidance contained in Network Rail Company Code of Practice RT/E/C/10179, The Set Up and Maintenance of Adjustable Stretcher Bars - A Good Practice Guide, in relation to the positioning and tightening of stretcher bar nuts, should be reviewed following in-service experience. The guidance should, if necessary, be modified in the light of this review...
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64 - Guidelines and disciplinary proceedings
Guidelines relating to the requirements of the Human Tissue Act 1961 and the obtaining of fully informed consent shall be drawn up and provision made for breach to result in disciplinary proceedings which could lead to suspension, dismissal or financial penalty.
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57 - Instruct doctors on Human Tissue Act
The Department of Health, the Royal Colleges and medical schools shall instruct members of the medical profession in the precise terms and provisions of the Human Tissue Act 1961, on the basis of our analysis, and the need for strict compliance.
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56 - Pathologists limit retention
The Royal College of Pathologists shall instruct all practising histopathologists that they shall not retain samples and organs beyond those reasonably incidental to establishing the cause of death unless there is also written consent properly obtained under the Human Tissue Act 1961.
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47 - Coroners’ Society instructions
The Coroners’ Society shall instruct Coroners that: – in the proper exercise of their judicial discretion, the decision to order a post mortem examination is not to be delegated to Coroner’s Officers and Deputy Coroners must be available at all times; – organs are not to be retained unless relevant to establishing the cause of death and only...
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44 - Do not raise Coroner unless reportable
Clinicians shall not mention to the next of kin the possibility of an examination under the Coroner’s jurisdiction unless the death is reportable to the Coroner.
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43 - Follow Chapter 10 on retention
Clinicians wishing to retain organs or samples after the end of the Coroner’s process for the purposes currently allowed under the Human Tissue Act 1961 shall follow the Recommendations in Chapter 10.
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41 - Instruct doctors on Coroner’s Act
The Department of Health, the Royal Colleges and medical schools shall instruct members of the medical profession in the precise terms and provisions of the Coroner’s Act 1988 and in particular the circumstances in which it is obligatory to report cases to the Coroner.
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137 - Departures from guidelines not a breach
A departure from suggested guidelines should not be automatically seen as a breach of good practice (17.78).
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38 - Guidance on instructing removal
Guidance should be given on the occasions on which the discretion to instruct removal should be exercised (16.7).
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55 - Wing officers calling for reviews
Wing officers should be reminded of the need to call for a review of an assessment when the necessity for one is triggered by some occurrence which might affect the prisoner’s emotional well-being.
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FP68 - Recommendation 68
Cases where there is scope for a difference of opinion should not be classified as ‘erroneous’. The cases that merit investigation are where there may have been a mistaken fingerprint analysis or a breach of accepted procedures.
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36 - Guidance on DBS for overseas work
The Home Office should ensure explanatory guidance is issued, providing clarity to recruiting organisations and individuals concerning the use of the Disclosure and Barring Service scheme for work and volunteering outside the UK.
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BAHA-6 - Five Techniques Terminology
In the interests of clarity for all, the five techniques should be referred to as being banned or prohibited rather than proscribed.
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POH-11 - Apply best offer principle equally in GLOS
The "best offer" principle which will apply in HSSA, as explained in response to Recommendation 10, shall be equally applicable in GLOS.
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8 - Flangeway gap standards
Railway Group Standard GI/RT7004 and all Network Rail technical documents covering installation, inspection and maintenance of point flangeway gaps, including the opening at the switch toes, should be reviewed, and, where necessary, modified, in order to: • Use consistent terminology. • Remove ambiguities. • Be consistent with the dimensions contained in RT/E/C/11772. • Specify the depth and longitudinal...
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71 - Review of pipeline emergency procedures
Operators should be required by regulation regularly to review pipeline emergency procedures and manuals. The review should ensure that the information contained in manuals is correct, that the procedures contained are agreed with those who are responsible for executing them and are consistent with the procedures of installations connected by hydrocarbon pipelines (para 19.196).
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11 - BNFL safety precautions and procedures
BNFL should do more, in future, to ensure that safety precautions and operating procedures at Windscale are sufficient for all eventualities, are strictly observed and are continually rehearsed. (para 11.11.)
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167 - Guidance for Reporters
Consideration should be given to the preparation of guidance for Reporters to secure greater uniformity across Scotland in their practice (18.56).
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16 - Clarify RT/CE/S/053 inspection timing
Network Rail Company Standard RT/CE/S/053 should be revised to remove ambiguity about whether the inspection required by paragraph 12 is to be undertaken at the same time as a detailed inspection or as part of the three-monthly/six-monthly inspection required by paragraph 7.
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15 - Clarify RT/CE/S/103 inspections
Network Rail Company Standard RT/CE/S/103 should be revised to clarify the following: • Paragraph 4.4 as to how often track gauge in S&C is to be measured and by whom (ie basic inspector, supervisor or track engineer). • Paragraph 8.1.2 as to how often toe and heel openings are to be checked and by whom (ie basic inspector,...
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62 - Full written instructions for removal
At least in complex cases those involved in the removal of the child should be given full written instructions (16.35).
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12 - Guidelines on requests to share with named prisoner
The Prison Service should publish guidelines to assist officers in handling requests by prisoners to share a cell with a particular prisoner. Practical problems should not be treated as an insuperable hurdle preventing an otherwise suitable move of a prisoner from one cell to another.
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FP4 - Recommendation 4
Differences of opinion between examiners should not be referred to as disputes.
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21 - Ten-foot width guidance
Consideration should be given to the need for guidance to be included in training material, or in the Rule Book GE/RT8000, that specifies the width of ten-foot that is required to enable a person to stand in safety between two lines.
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2 - Avoid undefined labels in abuse cases
As regards terminology it is recommended that in the investigation and practical management of cases of child sexual abuse care should be taken to avoid the use of labels without a common understanding of the definition and the purpose of the label (15.11).
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10 - Consistent excess motion specification
Network Rail Company Standards RT/E/C/11772, RT/E/C/11210 and/or associated drawing BRS-SM 2370/2 & /8 should be modified so that they are consistent in respect of the specification for excess motion setting and of the terminology used.
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