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Recommendations issued by UK statutory and non-statutory inquiries, with their tracked government response and supporting evidence.

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35 inquiries with tracked recs

Inquiry	Recs	Accepted
Mid Staffs Inquiry	290	281
Manchester Arena Inquiry	169	169
IICSA	107	96
Muckamore Abbey Inquiry	106	—
Grenfell Tower Inquiry	104	104
Infected Blood Inquiry	103	102
Hyponatraemia Inquiry	96	96
Fuller Inquiry	92	71
Leveson Inquiry	92	77
Vale of Leven Inquiry	75	75
Baha Mousa Inquiry	73	72
Southport Inquiry	67	—
RHI Inquiry	45	44
COVID-19 Inquiry	44	24
Morecambe Bay Investigation	44	44
Brook House Inquiry	33	28
Bichard Inquiry	31	31
Angiolini Inquiry	30	29
Post Office Horizon Inquiry	27	25
Jermaine Baker Inquiry	26	22
Edinburgh Tram Inquiry	24	21
Daniel Morgan Panel	23	21
Cranston Inquiry	18	—
Paterson Inquiry	17	15
HIA Inquiry	12	12
Scottish Hospitals Inquiry	11	11
Anthony Grainger Inquiry	9	9
Al-Sweady Inquiry	9	9
Hillsborough Panel	9	5
Fingerprint Inquiry	9	9
ICL Inquiry	7	6
Litvinenko Inquiry	5	5
Azelle Rodney Inquiry	3	3
Billy Wright Inquiry	3	3
Penrose Inquiry	1	1

Recommendations

1,417 of 1,814 · page 11 of 29

Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
35	Mandatory DBS for work with children overseas The Home Office should introduce legislation making it mandatory for: 1. all UK nationals and residents of England and Wales to provide …	IICSA (2020)	Not Accepted
36	Guidance on DBS for overseas work The Home Office should ensure explanatory guidance is issued, providing clarity to recruiting organisations and individuals concerning the use of the Disclosure …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
104	High risk countries list for travel orders The Home Office should bring forward legislation providing for the establishment and maintenance by the National Crime Agency of a list of …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
37	Westminster whistleblowing policies for CSA Government, political parties and other Westminster institutions must have whistleblowing policies and procedures which cover child sexual abuse and exploitation. Every employee …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
38	Government department safeguarding policy reviews The Cabinet Office must ensure that each government department reviews its child safeguarding policy or policies in light of the expert witness …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
39	Political party safeguarding policies All political parties registered with the Electoral Commission in England and in Wales must ensure that they have a comprehensive safeguarding policy. …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
99	Honours forfeiture for CSA convictions The criteria for forfeiture of all honours must be formally extended to include convictions, cautions and cases decided by trial of the …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
100	Posthumous honours forfeiture policy The Cabinet Office should re-examine the policy on posthumous forfeiture, in order to consider the perspectives of victims and survivors of child …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
40	Publish interim online harms code of practice The government should publish, without further delay, the interim code of practice in respect of child sexual abuse and exploitation as proposed …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
71	Pre-screen material before upload The government should require industry to pre-screen material before it is uploaded to the internet to prevent access to known indecent images …	IICSA (2020)	Not Accepted
105	WeProtect international action on CSAM The government should press the WeProtect Global Alliance to take more action internationally to ensure that those countries hosting indecent images of …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
106	Online age verification legislation The government should introduce legislation requiring providers of online services and social media platforms to implement more stringent age verification techniques on …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
5	Reform Church of England clergy discipline for safeguarding The Church of England should make changes and improvements to the way in which it responds to safeguarding complaints (whether related to …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
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 …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
44	Church of England/Wales information sharing protocol The Church of England and the Church in Wales should agree and implement a formal information-sharing protocol. This should include the sharing …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
45	Local diocesan information sharing protocols The Church of England, the Church in Wales and statutory partners should ensure that information-sharing protocols are in place at a local …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
46	Church independent external safeguarding audits The Church in Wales should introduce independent external auditing of its safeguarding policies and procedures, as well as the effectiveness of safeguarding …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
89	Church funding policy for victim support The Church of England and the Church in Wales should each introduce a Church-wide policy on the funding and provision of support …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
6	Redraft canonical crimes as crimes against the child The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales should request that the Holy See redraft the canonical crimes relating to child sexual …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
7	Catholic complaints policy with escalation process The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and the Conference of Religious should publish a national policy for complaints about the …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
47	Catholic lead clergy for safeguarding The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and the Conference of Religious in England and in Wales should each nominate a …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
48	Mandatory Catholic safeguarding training The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales should ensure that safeguarding training is mandatory for all staff and volunteers in roles …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
49	Catholic non-compliance framework The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and the Conference of Religious should publish a clear framework for dealing with cases …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
50	Independent validation of Catholic audit programme The Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Service should have the effectiveness of its audit programme regularly validated by an independent organisation which is external …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
51	Review Catholic safeguarding policies manual The Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Service should review its policies and procedures manual and the documents within it to ensure that they are …	IICSA (2020)	Accepted
52	Lambeth Council comprehensive action plan Lambeth Council should develop and publish a comprehensive action plan which details the actions that it will take in response to the …	IICSA (2021)	Accepted
53	Lambeth councillor safeguarding training All Lambeth Council elected members should receive training on: (i) safeguarding and (ii) corporate parenting. Newly elected members should receive training on …	IICSA (2021)	Accepted
54	Lambeth foster carer vetting review Lambeth Council should review the application of recruitment and vetting procedures for all current foster carers directly provided by Lambeth Council, to …	IICSA (2021)	Accepted
82	Metropolitan Police investigation into Lambeth Council The Metropolitan Police Service should consider whether there are grounds for a criminal investigation into Lambeth Council's actions when providing information to …	IICSA (2021)	Accepted
8	Expand Ofsted powers for unregistered settings The government should introduce legislation to: change the definition of full-time education, and to bring any setting that is the pupil's primary …	IICSA (2021)	Accepted in Part
55	Religious organisation child protection policies All religious organisations should have a child protection policy and supporting procedures, which should include advice and guidance on responding to disclosures …	IICSA (2021)	Accepted
1	Collect disaggregated CSE data Police forces and local authorities in England and in Wales must collect data on all cases of known or suspected child sexual …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
9	Mandatory aggravating factor for CSE offences The government should amend the Sentencing Act 2020 to provide a mandatory aggravating factor in sentencing in the case of the commission …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
10	Publish enhanced Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit As referenced in its Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy, the government should publish an enhanced version of its Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
11	Ban CSE-risk children from semi-independent placements The Department for Education should ban the placement in semi-independent and independent settings of children aged 16 and 17 who have experienced, …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
56	Update CSE guidance with network information The Department for Education should review and publish an updated version of its guidance on child sexual exploitation. The update should specify …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
57	Distinguish CSE risk from actual exploitation The Department for Education and the Welsh Government must ensure that their updated national guidance makes clear that signs that a child …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
58	Residential schools inspection and guardians registration The Department for Education and the Welsh Government should: require all residential special schools to be inspected against the quality standards used …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
59	National LADO standards The Department for Education and the Welsh Government should: introduce a set of national standards for local authority designated officers in England …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
60	Independent school governance standards The Department for Education and the Welsh Government should: amend the Independent School Standards to include the requirements that there is an …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
61	Nationally accredited safeguarding training in schools The Department for Education and the Welsh Government should: set nationally accredited standards and levels of safeguarding training in schools; make the …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
62	Schools notify inspectorate of DBS referrals The Department for Education and the Welsh Government should: require schools to inform the relevant inspectorate when they have referred a member …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
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 …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
85	Access to records for former child migrants The Chair and Panel have recommended that all institutions which sent children abroad as part of the child migration programmes should ensure …	IICSA (2018)	Accepted
92	Apologies to former child migrants The Chair and Panel have recommended that institutions involved in the child migration programmes who have not apologised for their role should …	IICSA (2018)	Accepted
93	Financial redress for former child migrants The Chair and Panel have recommended that the UK government establishes a financial redress scheme for surviving former child migrants, providing for …	IICSA (2018)	Accepted
1	Monitor Brook House contract performance robustly The Home Office must actively and robustly monitor the performance of the Brook House contract, including satisfying itself that any self-reported information …	Brook House Inquiry (2023)	Accepted in Part
2	Require IRC contracts to uphold Rule 3 humane detention principles The Home Office must ensure that each contract for the management of an immigration removal centre must expressly require compliance with the …	Brook House Inquiry (2023)	Accepted in Part
3	Limit cell occupancy to maximum two people The Home Office must ensure that a maximum of two detained people are accommodated in each cell at Brook House.	Brook House Inquiry (2023)	Accepted in Part
4	Ensure reasonable internet and computer access for detainees The Home Office and its contractors must ensure reasonable access to computers and the internet. Contractors must comply in full with Detention …	Brook House Inquiry (2023)	Accepted in Part

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