Staff suitability and fitness
Failure to ensure that employed staff possess good character, necessary qualifications, skills, experience, and physical and mental fitness for their roles.
86 items
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16 inquiries
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Inquiry recommendation
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P2-74 - HTA require suitable qualified staff with enforcement
The Human Tissue Authority, and/or the new inspectorate, should require the organisations it licenses to ensure that any individual who provides care to deceased people is suitably qualified, experienced and supervised. The regulatory regime should set minimum standards on the qualifications likely to be considered sufficient to demonstrate 'suitability' for particular roles or levels of responsibility. Failure to...
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Inquiry recommendation
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FR-7 - Registration of Care Home Staff
The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its Interim Report, dated April 2018) that the UK government introduces arrangements for the registration of staff working in care roles in children's homes, including secure children's homes. Registration should be with an independent body charged with setting and maintaining standards of training, conduct and continuing professional development, and with the...
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Inquiry recommendation
78match
24 - Registration of children's home care staff
The Chair and Panel recommend that the Department for Education introduces arrangements for the registration of staff working in care roles in children's homes. Registration should be with an independent body charged with setting and maintaining standards of training, conduct and continuing professional development, and with the power to enforce these through fitness to practise procedures. The Chair...
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Inquiry recommendation
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FENN-96 - Allocate physically suitable staff to roles, ensuring station safety balance
London Underground shall only allocate staff to a role for which they are physically suitable. In the cause of safety, a proper balance must be ensured at each station.
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Inquiry recommendation
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27 - Professional registration for custodial care staff
As the Inquiry set out in its Interim Report, professional registration of the workforce in settings responsible for the care of vulnerable children complements regulation of institutions by a separate, independent regulator. The government has agreed in principle that professional regulation of staff in children's homes in England could provide an effective additional means of protecting children. It...
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Inquiry recommendation
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F23 - Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance
The measures formulated by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence should include measures not only of clinical outcomes, but of the suitability and competence of staff, and the culture of organisations. The standard procedures and practice should include evidence-based tools for establishing what each service is likely to require as a minimum in terms of staff...
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R9 - GP certification of fitness for NHS employment
We recommend that consideration be given to how General Practitioners, might, with the candidate's consent be asked to certify that there is nothing in the medical history of a candidate for employment in the nhs which would make them unsuitable for their chosen occupation (see para 5.5.19).
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Inquiry recommendation
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WATE-(24) - Mandate stringent, independent vetting for all foster parent applications, especially staff
Similar vigilance should be mandatory in relation to all applications for approval as foster parents. In particular, any application to foster by a member of a local authority's child care staff should be stringently vetted by a social worker who is not known to the applicant.
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WATE-(23) - Periodically audit Social Services staff recruitment and management vigilance
Social Services Departments should be reminded periodically that they must exercise vigilance in the recruitment and management of their staff in strict accordance with the detailed recommendations of the Warner committee917; and compliance with them by individual local authorities should be audited from time to time.
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Inquiry recommendation
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FR-8 - Registration in Young Offender Institutions
The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its Sexual Abuse of Children in Custodial Institutions: 2009-2017 Investigation Report, dated February 2019) that the UK government introduces arrangements for the professional registration of staff in roles responsible for the care of children in young offender institutions and secure training centres.
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Inquiry recommendation
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P1-3 - Criminal record checks compliance
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must assure itself that it is compliant with its own current policy on criminal record checks and re-checks for staff. The Trust should ensure that staff who are employed by its facilities management provider or other contractors are subject to the same requirements.
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Inquiry recommendation
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63 - Extend TRA jurisdiction to teaching assistants
The Department for Education should amend the Teachers' Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012 to bring all teaching assistants, learning support staff and cover supervisors within the misconduct jurisdiction of the Teaching Regulation Agency. The Department for Education and the Welsh Government should amend Keeping Children Safe in Education and Keeping Learners Safe to: provide more detailed guidance as to...
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F191 - Recruitment for values and commitment
Healthcare employers recruiting nursing staff, whether qualified or unqualified, should assess candidates' values, attitudes and behaviours towards the well-being of patients and their basic care needs, and care providers should be required to do so by commissioning and regulatory requirements.
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Inquiry recommendation
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25 - Amendment of Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
The Chair and Panel recommend that the Home Office ensures that the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 is amended so that, where a fitness to practise hearing has been conducted by the keeper of a relevant register and has resulted in removal of a practitioner from that register for reasons relating to harm or risk of harm to...
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F188 - Aptitude test for compassion and caring
The Nursing and Midwifery Council, working with universities, should consider the introduction of an aptitude test to be undertaken by aspirant registered nurses at entry into the profession, exploring, in particular, candidates' attitudes towards caring, compassion and other necessary professional values.
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Inquiry recommendation
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77 - CSA experience for Chief Officer progression
The Chair and Panel recommend that any police officer (or staff equivalent) who wants to progress to the Chief Officer cadre must first be required to: have operational policing experience in preventing and responding to child sexual abuse; and achieve accreditation in the role of the police service in preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. The Home...
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Inquiry recommendation
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F172 - Proficiency in the English language
The Government should consider urgently the introduction of a common requirement of proficiency in communication in the English language with patients and other persons providing healthcare to the standard required for a registered medical practitioner to assume professional responsibility for medical treatment of an English-speaking patient.
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Inquiry recommendation
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FR-10 - Improve DBS Referral Compliance
The Inquiry recommends that the UK government takes steps to improve compliance by regulated activity providers with their statutory duty to refer concerns about the suitability of individuals to work with children to the Disclosure and Barring Service, including: all relevant regulators and inspectorates include compliance with the statutory duty to refer to the Disclosure and Barring Service...
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31 - DBS and training compliance for Church officers
Individuals engaged in regulated activity who have failed to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check or complete compulsory training should not be permitted to hold voluntary offices within the Church. Failure by ordained clergy to comply with either requirement should result in disciplinary proceedings.
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R6 - Sickness records available to occupational health
We recommend that the possibility be reviewed of making available to Occupational Health departments any records of absence through sickness from any institution which an applicant for a nursing post has attended or been employed by (para 5.5.14).
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R4 - No nursing employment where major personality disorder
We recommend that no candidate for nursing in whom there is evidence of major personality disorder should be employed in this profession (para 5.4.11)
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COVID-M2.1 - NI CMO Independence
The Department of Health (Northern Ireland) should reconstitute the role of the Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland as an independent advisory role. The Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland should not have managerial responsibilities within the Department of Health (Northern Ireland).
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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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R7 - Criteria for management referrals to occupational health
We recommend that procedures for management referrals to occupational health should make clear the criteria which should trigger such referrals (para 5.5.14).
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R5 - Health screening for newly qualified nurses
We recommend that nurses should undergo formal health screening when they obtain their first posts after qualifying (para 5.5.13).
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R1 - Sickness-absence record for entrants to nursing
We recommend that for all those seeking entry to the nursing profession, in addition to routine references the most recent employer or place of study should be asked to provide at least a record of time taken off on grounds of sickness (para 2.4.4)
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BRIS-79 - GMC's 'Good Medical Practice' to inform medical school selection and curricula
The attributes of a good doctor, as set down in the GMC’s ‘Good Medical Practice’, must inform every aspect of the selection criteria and curricula of medical schools.
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BRIS-78 - Widen medical school access for diverse academic and socio-economic backgrounds
Access to medical schools should be widened to include people from diverse academic and socio-economic backgrounds. Those with qualifications in other areas of healthcare and those with an educational background in subjects other than science, who have the ability and wish to do so, should have greater opportunities than is presently the case, to enter medical schools.
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IHRD-14 - Clinician Competence Assessment
The experience and competence of all clinicians caring for children in acute hospital settings should be assessed before employment.
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41 - Create diocesan safeguarding officers
The Church of England should create the role of a diocesan safeguarding officer to replace the diocesan safeguarding adviser. Diocesan safeguarding officers should have the authority to make decisions independently of the diocesan bishop in respect of key safeguarding tasks, including: escalating incidents to the National Safeguarding Team, statutory authorities and the Charity Commission; advising on the suspension...
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R8 - Apply ANHSOP Chairman's suggestion in practice
We recommend that further consideration be given to how the suggestion of the Chairman of the Association of NHS Occupational Physicians (see para 5.5.16) could be applied in practice (para 5.5.17).
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BRIS-89 - Involve public, employers, and professional groups in revalidation processes
The public, as well as the employer and the relevant professional group, must be involved in the processes of revalidation.
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BRIS-88 - Mandate periodic revalidation for all healthcare professionals in employment contracts
Periodic revalidation, whereby healthcare professionals demonstrate that they remain fit to practise in their chosen profession, should be compulsory for all healthcare professionals. The requirement to participate in periodic revalidation should be included in the contract of employment.
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BRIS-87 - Incorporate periodic appraisal requirement into General Practitioners' terms of service
The requirement to undergo periodic appraisal should also be incorporated into GPs’ terms of service.
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BRIS-86 - Expedite implementation of regular appraisal for all hospital consultants
The commitment in ‘The NHS Plan’ to introduce regular appraisal for hospital consultants must be implemented as soon as possible.
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BRIS-85 - Mandate periodic appraisal for all healthcare professionals in employment contracts
Periodic appraisal should be compulsory for all healthcare professionals. The requirement to participate in appraisal should be included in the contract of employment.
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BRIS-80 - Involve NHS and public in establishing selection criteria for healthcare professionals
The NHS and the public should be involved in (a) establishing the criteria for selection and (b) the selection of those to be educated as doctors, nurses and as other healthcare professionals.
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P2-13 - Mortuary Manager professional background prerequisite
A professional background in the field of mortuary services should be made a prerequisite for the post of Mortuary Manager.
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FR-9 - Greater Use of DBS
The Inquiry recommends that the UK government enables any person engaging an individual to work or volunteer with children on a frequent basis to check whether or not they have been barred by the Disclosure and Barring Service from working with children. These arrangements should also apply where the role is undertaken on a supervised basis.
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BRIS-84 - Trusts must ensure CPD resources meet patient needs and professional aspirations
Trusts and primary care trusts must take overall responsibility through an agreed plan for their employees’ use of the time allocated to CPD. They must seek to ensure that the resources deployed for CPD contribute towards meeting the needs of the trust and of its patients, as well as meeting the professional aspirations of individual healthcare professionals.
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BRIS-83 - Provide incentives, funding, and time for healthcare professional continuous professional development
Trusts and primary care trusts should provide incentives to encourage healthcare professionals to maintain and develop their skills. The contract (or, in the case of GPs, other relevant mechanism) between the trust and the healthcare professional should provide for the funding of CPD and should stipulate the time which the trust will make available for CPD.
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BRIS-82 - Make Continuing Professional Development (CPD) compulsory for all healthcare professionals
CPD, being fundamental to the quality of care provided to patients, should be compulsory for all healthcare professionals.
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BRIS-66 - Identify and train potential NHS leaders, investing in leadership skills development
Steps should be taken to identify and train those within the NHS who have the potential to exercise leadership. There needs be a sustained investment in developing leadership skills at all levels in the NHS.
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BRIS-63 - Provide healthcare management education for all aspiring clinical professionals
All those preparing for a career in clinical care should receive some education in the management of healthcare, the health service and the skills required for management.
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BRIS-58 - Formally assess non-clinical patient care competence for initial professional qualification
Competence in non-clinical aspects of caring for patients should be formally assessed as part of the process of obtaining an initial professional qualification, whether as a doctor, a nurse or some other healthcare professional.
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P1-6 - Review policies on mortuary access
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must review its policies to ensure that only those with appropriate and legitimate access can enter the mortuary.
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FR-11 - Extend Disclosure Regime Overseas
The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its Children Outside the United Kingdom Phase 2 Investigation Report, dated January 2020) that the UK government introduces legislation permitting the Disclosure and Barring Service to provide enhanced certificates with barred list checks to citizens and residents of England and Wales applying for: work or volunteering with UK-based organisations, where the...
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BRIS-71 - Establish a single body to coordinate all healthcare professional regulatory bodies
In addition, a single body should be charged with the overall co-ordination of the various professional bodies and with integrating the various systems of regulation. It should be called the Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals. (In effect, this is the body currently proposed in ‘The NHS Plan’, and referred to as the Council of Healthcare Regulators.)...
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BRIS-70 - Establish single regulatory bodies for each distinct healthcare professional group
For each group of healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses and midwives, the professions allied to medicine, and managers) there should be one body charged with overseeing all aspects relating to the regulation of professional life: education, registration, training, CPD, revalidation and discipline. The bodies should be: for doctors, the GMC; for nurses and midwives, the new Nursing and Midwifery...
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BRIS-68 - Involve NHS Leadership Centre in all healthcare professional education and development stages
The NHS Leadership Centre should be involved in all stages of the education, training and continuing development of all healthcare professionals.
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