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P2-69

Formalise multi-organisation arrangements

Fuller Inquiry · Fuller Inquiry Phase 2 Report · Issued 15 July 2025 · Addressed to: Department of Health and Social Care

Government responseDepartment of Health and Social Care: Under consideration (Dec 2025)

DeliveryDepartment of Health and Social Care states no delivery position (Jun 2026)

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

Where organisations work together to care for people after death, the arrangements should be formalised through contracts or service level agreements. This should include joint Standard Operating Procedures. The parties to the contracts or service level agreements should ensure that the contracts or agreements are managed effectively, and that they seek assurance that the arrangements protect the security and dignity of people after death.

Fuller Inquiry, Fuller Inquiry Phase 2 Report · 15 Jul 2025 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

AI-generated evidence summary

In June 2026, the Department of Health and Social Care reported in a Cabinet Office dashboard update that "This recommendation is under consideration" (Department of Health and Social Care, Jun 2026). In that same June 2026 update, the department recorded no specific delivery position, stating that it was not providing an update for that quarter (Department of Health and Social Care, Jun 2026). In December 2025, it had similarly stated in an interim progress report that the recommendation remained under consideration, publishing no individual text for it (Department of Health and Social Care response, Dec 2025).

AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026.

About this summary
This recommendation applies across many organisations. The record above reflects central policy activity; adoption in individual organisations may vary.

Government response

●Department of Health and Social Care · Under consideration · 16 Dec 2025

Words of: Department of Health and Social Care, Interim update on government progress in responding to the Fuller inquiry phase 2 report, 16 December 2025

For the remaining 21 recommendations, these remain under consideration.

Extract from: Interim update on government progress in responding to the Fuller inquiry phase 2 report

Site note: This is the Department of Health and Social Care's interim update on government progress in responding to the phase 2 report, published on 16 December 2025. It sorts the 75 recommendations into those the government has accepted in full (11), accepted in principle (43) and is still considering (21), and gives words of its own only on the 11 accepted in full. Every word is the Department's, so the rows are filed under it, including where the passage reports what another body has done.

Site note: The recommendation is addressed to the Department itself. The update gives this sentence once, under its heading "Recommendations under consideration", and lists this recommendation there among the 21 it covers. It says nothing about this recommendation alone.

Delivery

●Department of Health and Social Care states no delivery position · 16 Jun 2026

This recommendation is under consideration.

From: Fuller Inquiry Recommendations Dashboard

Site note: The source names this recommendation by number. The dashboard's own words are "This recommendation is under consideration." The site records that the entry states no delivery position; the department has not described the recommendation as "noted".

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The recommendation and the government responses are verbatim from primary documents. Delivery statements and other bodies' findings are shown in their own words, each with its source. The summary is written by this site and labelled as such. The Index does not paraphrase sources or characterise intent; it records what has been published.