Staff training and development
Lack of effective systems to ensure staff receive appropriate training, ongoing support, professional development, supervision, and appraisal.
671 items
1 source
49 inquiries
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Staff training and development has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
671 inquiry recs
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COVID-M6.7 — Mandatory End-of-Life Care Training
Recommendation: The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should establish mandatory training for health and social care professionals looking after people in the adult social care sector who are nearing the end of life. The training should …
Gov response: No formal government response published. The Northern Ireland Executive had not published a response to the Module 6 report of 20 October 2026 when the Executive Office's publications list was checked on 20 October 2026.
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16 — Soil mechanics for managers and surveyors
Recommendation: Managers and surveyors should as soon as possible be made aware of the rudiments of soil mechanics and ground-water conditions. The statutory qualifications for managers and surveyors should be amended to include awareness of the rudiments of soil mechanics and …
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15 — Training for those managing tips
Recommendation: Men engaged in the daily management and control of tips should be trained for their responsibilities (Paragraph 295).
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71 — Rigorous risk assessments
Recommendation: Steps should be taken to ensure that all risk assessments are rigorous and that those initiating risk assessments are appropriately qualified and informed. Steps include giving attention to HSE Guidance Notes covering risk assessment, which should accordingly be kept under …
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52 — Training and briefing for train crews on emergencies
Recommendation: Train crews should be given improved training and briefing on emergency actions, including a practical evacuation (para 11.11).
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20 — Training for information controllers
Recommendation: Level and quality of training for information controllers should be reviewed (para 9.15).
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8 — Monitor driver transfers and numbers trained
Recommendation: Railtrack and ATOC should monitor the transfer of drivers between operators and the numbers of drivers trained by each TOC and consider whether there are any safety implications involved (paras 5.5, 16.5).
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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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5 — Testing of driver competence and knowledge of the Rules
Recommendation: Testing of driver competence and knowledge of Rules should be extended to cover application of the Rules to practical situations, including all abnormal driving situations permitted by the Rules (para 16.4).
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4 — Driver training in abnormal situations
Recommendation: Driver training should include driving in abnormal situations permitted by the Rules and specifically driving with AWS isolated to the extent so permitted, including the use of simulators (para 16.4).
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3 — Simulators for driver training
Recommendation: Simulators should be introduced for driver training and for the observance of driver behaviour (para 16.3).
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1 — Co-operate on research into driver behaviour
Recommendation: All parties in the rail industry should co-operate in the collection of evidence to support reliable research into human behaviour studies relating to driver performance. Railtrack should co-ordinate this work and TOCs incorporate the results into training programmes (paras 1.25, …
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24 — Separate domestic and nursing duties
Recommendation: Domestic duties should, so far as possible, be separated from nursing duties and a special programme started for recruiting and training domestic workers.
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20 — Nurse training in co-ordination with Sharoe Green
Recommendation: Training for student and pupil nurses and experience of trained staff should be arranged in co-ordination with Sharoe Green and the new Preston hospital facilities to give adequate variety in all types of patient care.
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28 — RIO training on accident priorities
Recommendation: Consideration should be given to enhancing the training for RIOs to include additional guidance on priorities in the event of accidents and incidents where infrastructure failures are a predominant factor.
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21 — Ten-foot width guidance
Recommendation: 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 …
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20 — Patrolman training on stretcher bars
Recommendation: Consideration should be given to enhancing the competence of CE patrolmen, by the provision of additional training, to enable them to recognise and report emerging problems such as loose nuts and off-centre threads on adjustable stretcher bars, during basic visual …
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2 — Stretcher bar training programme
Recommendation: A training programme based on 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 should be developed. All signal installation and maintenance staff, their …
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62 — Training in informed consent
Recommendation: The Department of Health, the Royal Colleges and medical schools shall provide training for all those involved in obtaining fully informed consent.
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57 — Instruct doctors on Human Tissue Act
Recommendation: 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 …
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49 — Training for Coroner’s Officers
Recommendation: The Home Office and the Coroners’ Society shall ensure all necessary training of Coroner’s Officers and ancillary staff.
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48 — Medical education for Coroners
Recommendation: The Home Office and the Coroners’ Society shall ensure all necessary medical education for Coroners.
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47 — Coroners’ Society instructions
Recommendation: 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 …
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41 — Instruct doctors on Coroner’s Act
Recommendation: 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 …
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38 — Suitable calibre and training of managers
Recommendation: Hospital managers shall be of a suitable background and calibre for the role expected of them, provided with all necessary training (including continued education) and themselves regularly appraised for the quality of their performance.
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36 — Training before taking management control
Recommendation: No clinician should take effective control of a management position until trained in all necessary management techniques and in any relevant legal requirements.
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26 — Formal joint annual appraisal
Recommendation: There shall be formal annual appraisal of an individual by both parties. They shall share their information in line with the duty of utmost good faith in order to draw up a joint statement of aims in the following 12 …
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7 — Make trained staff available
Recommendation: The Chief Executive and Trust Board shall make available suitably trained staff for implementing the Serious Incident Procedure.
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186 — Police training in child care work
Recommendation: More extensive police training in work relating to matters of child care should be provided particularly in the work of interviewing children (19.22).
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184 — SWSG to promote training
Recommendation: SWSG should be given every encouragement to initiate and promote further and fuller facilities for training including joint training between agencies, to recognise the resource implications and to secure a level of training which will produce standards of practice to …
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183 — Specialist courses in social work
Recommendation: Every encouragement and support should be given to the creation and development of specialist courses in social work in Scotland with the involvement of practitioners from all agencies (19.18-19).
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182 — Training for others involved in child protection
Recommendation: Consideration should be given to the provision of training to all those outside the social work profession and the police who in one context or another may have an involvement in child protection work (19.17).
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178 — Extend management skills training
Recommendation: Training in management skills should be extended (19.13).
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177 — Post-qualifying training in interviewing
Recommendation: Planning should be started for developing more extensive post qualifying training to cover the complex subject of interviewing children in cases of suspected sexual abuse (19.10-12).
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176 — Interviewing children in qualifying training
Recommendation: Basic qualifying training for social workers when extended should include substantial tuition on interviewing children (19.10-12).
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175 — Resources for training needs
Recommendation: Local and central government should consider as a matter of priority the problems of resource and facilities involved in meeting that need (19.10).
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174 — ADSW to consider post-qualifying training
Recommendation: The need to increase facilities for post-qualifying training should be considered by ADSW (19.10).
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172 — Three-year qualification course
Recommendation: A three-year qualification course for social workers should be introduced as soon as possible (19.8).
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171 — More social work training facilities
Recommendation: An increase in the facilities for training in social work is required and in particular for specialist training over the whole area of child care (19.7).
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170 — Child protection as specialist area
Recommendation: The whole area of work in child protection requires to be seen as a specialist area to be undertaken by practitioners with specialist skills and knowledge with adequate training and support (19.5-6).
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135 — Matters to consider before interviewing
Recommendation: Before embarking on an investigative interview interviewers should consider the matters of denial and retraction by a child, the interviewer’s knowledge of information relating to allegations, the interviewer’s own agenda, the use of leading questions and the introduction of personal …
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129 — Manager to know interviewer's support
Recommendation: An interviewer’s manager should have a clear understanding of all the people from whom the interviewer is receiving support (17.71).
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128 — Planned supervision of joint interviews
Recommendation: Where interviews are being undertaken jointly, supervision should be planned on an occasional but regular joint basis (17.70).
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127 — Supervision in complex interviews
Recommendation: Where interviews involve complex or multiple sexual abuse allegations there must be provided individual personal supervision, management supervision and detailed interview supervision (17.69).
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113 — Training in interviewing and recording
Recommendation: The importance of full training in the art of interviewing and the techniques of recording should be fully recognised (17.52).
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108 — Recognise complexity of interviewing children
Recommendation: There should be a greater recognition by agencies, training colleges, Central Government Departments and the public of the complexity of the task of interviewing children where allegations of sexual abuse arise (17.47).
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49 — Further training of JPs
Recommendation: Encouragement should be given to further training of JPs (16.21).
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39 — Training to consider child's self-protection
Recommendation: In all training in matters of child abuse account should be taken of the opportunity which a child has to take steps for his or her own protection (16.8).
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16 — Awareness for school administrative bodies
Recommendation: The administrative bodies of all schools should be helped to develop an awareness of the problems involved in child sexual abuse and the roles of the various agencies engaged in dealing with it (15.36).
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15 — Schools to link with Social Work Departments
Recommendation: The discovery of sexual abuse is not the monopoly of any agency. In particular, schools should establish close links with their local Social Work Departments. Teachers should be designated to be trained in the recognition of child sexual abuse and …
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