LAMI-14

Require training bodies to include inter-agency joint working in national programmes

Laming Inquiry · Laming Inquiry — Final Report · Issued 28 January 2003

Government responseNot tracked (historical inquiry)

DeliveryNo statement from the addressee found

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

The National Agency for Children and Families should require each of the training bodies covering the services provided by doctors, nurses, teachers, police officers, officers working in housing departments, and social workers to demonstrate that effective joint working between each of these professional groups features in their national training programmes.

Laming Inquiry, Laming Inquiry — Final Report · 28 Jan 2003 Source PDF →

Government response

●No formal government response recorded

The Index has not yet recorded a verbatim government response to this recommendation.

Delivery

No statement on delivery from the addressee has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.

What other bodies have found

In their own words. These do not change the delivery statement above.

●Thirlwall Inquiry legal team · 27 Feb 2026

The Government accepted this recommendation in principle, stating: A review of training is currently being undertaken to be completed by the end of September 2003. The review will examine this issue and make recommendations about future inter-agency training (paragraphs 88-90).

From: The Thirlwall Inquiry: Review of Implementation of Recommendations from Previous Inquiries into Healthcare Issues (version dated April 2025)

Site note: The Thirlwall Inquiry legal team's own notes on implementation, from its Review of Implementation of Recommendations from Previous Inquiries into Healthcare Issues (version dated April 2025, published 27 February 2026). The review does not colour its Extent of Implementation cell for this recommendation green; it leaves the cell uncoloured where a recommendation was rejected, where evidence of implementation was insufficient, or where steps had been taken but implementation was not yet complete. Table row: section 7.2 No. 14, PDF page 163.

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