LAMI-85

Develop continuing education models for deliberate harm diagnosis and multi-disciplinary child protection investigations.

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 Department of Health should invite the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to develop models of continuing education in the diagnosis and treatment of the deliberate harm of children, and in the multi-disciplinary aspects of a child protection investigation, to support the revalidation of doctors described in the preceding recommendation.

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

Government response

●No formal government response recorded

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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: The Department of Health is supporting work by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to develop training materials on child protection through funding a two-year research fellow in association with the College. The College will take forward this work with the NSPCC, with a view to the training materials being available by the end of 2005 (paragraph 87).

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. 85, PDF page 166-167.

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