Public Inquiry Recommendations

Phase 2 should consider whether conventional archery bows should be subject to age‑verification prior to sale, delivery restrictions including ID checks, mandatory …

Phase 2 should consider, in parallel with the government’s consultation where possible, a prohibition on the sale of crossbows, a licensing scheme …

The Home Office should provide clear guidance to all UK retailers of archery bows and crossbows on identifying and reporting suspicious behaviour, …

The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis should consider an investigation, with input from the Crown Prosecution Service if appropriate, as to …

The Home Office should take immediate action to ensure that online knife retailers are complying with the Knives Act 1997, particularly regarding …

Amazon should: 1. Improve its measures to prevent children from making purchases, including making the conditions of use and sale more prominent. …

Phase 2 should consider further measures relating to knives/bladed items sales, including: 1. Restrictions on sharp‑tipped knives. 2. Prohibiting some online sales …

The Department for Education should review and strengthen its guidance to schools on monitoring and filtering systems, including ensuring that the systems …

Lancashire County Council should undertake a comprehensive review of how its children’s services and Early Help teams (i.e. Children and Family Wellbeing …

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology should consider extending the powers under the Online Safety Act 2023 to enable Senior Coroners …

Phase 2 should consider age verification for the use of Virtual Private Network (VPN) software and other options to avoid VPNs being …

Lancashire Constabulary should consider extending Operation Encompass to share automatically relevant information with schools in bordering areas. The Department for Education should …

Lancashire Constabulary, and the College of Policing nationally, should ensure that forms and training emphasise the importance of recording, as precisely as …

Lancashire Constabulary and Merseyside Police should review the effectiveness of their information‑sharing systems and consider whether a more robust process is required. …

Lancashire Constabulary should ensure its training and systems address the risks associated with failing to record case information on police systems so …

Lancashire Constabulary should ensure its procedures and training sufficiently addresses the risks children and young people may pose to others and the …

1. Lancashire Constabulary should strengthen its autism spectrum disorder‑related training for new officers and through continuous development. 2. National policing bodies, with …

1. Lancashire Constabulary should ensure response officers have access to effective technology providing clear, essential case information. 2. The National Police Chiefs’ …

While training for Counter Terrorism Policing, staff involved in Prevent currently cover the importance of understanding a referred individual’s online activity and …

Counter Terrorism Policing’s capability to access and analyse data relating to a referred person’s online activity should be reviewed in the context …

Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review its neurodiversity training for Prevent practitioners (including, where appropriate, drawing in wider healthcare advice) to ensure …

Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review and where necessary strengthen the training that Counter Terrorism officers involved in Prevent already receive to …

Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and the Home Office should assess and issue clear guidance on best practice for sharing appropriate information about …

Prevent Supervisors should receive improved role specific training, including training on supervising decisions to close Prevent referrals and ensuring that all outstanding …

Building on the Key Principles of Prevent issued on 23 February 2026, the Home Office should ensure that accessible information and appropriate …

The Department for Education should update Working Together to Safeguard Children and the Children’s Social Care National Framework. These documents should highlight …

Lancashire County Council should ensure that by 13 October 2026 all its frontline staff have received suitable training, or refresher training, on …

Lancashire County Council should ensure that its arrangements for social workers provide appropriate support and supervision for family support workers handling Level …

Lancashire County Council should review its processes and training to ensure decisions regarding children and families are made on the basis of …

Lancashire County Council should ensure that its policies and training emphasise the significance of multiple referrals when considering the relevant risks relating …

1. Lancashire County Council should ensure that frontline staff are required to familiarise themselves with full case information, with this being embedded …

Lancashire County Council should ensure frontline staff receive appropriate training on autism spectrum disorder, emphasising that autism does not necessarily explain or …

1. Lancashire County Council should consider how to address repeated lack of consent or manipulation of consent within existing legislation. 2. Phase …

Lancashire County Council, in consultation with the Youth Justice Board, should arrange for a comprehensive and independent audit to be undertaken of …

1. Lancashire County Council should ensure that staff within Children and Family Wellbeing Service, and Children’s Social Care receive training on the …

Lancashire County Council, with the Care Quality Commission, should commission an independent audit of the Young Adults Team to ensure assessments for …

The Department of Health and Social Care / NHS England should ensure that all healthcare trusts involved in the care of children …

At the local level, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust should liaise with all of the relevant community healthcare organisations (including …

Nationally, the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England should review: 1. Whether there is a need for further development …

At the local level, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust should by no later …

Nationally, the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England should consider whether nationwide guidance should be issued on the importance …

Phase 2 should consider the ability of community and forensic mental health services to deliver clinical interventions to mitigate the risk from …

Phase 2 should consider whether further legislative change is required to allow mental health clinicians to assess children and young people who …

The Home Office (for police forces nationwide) Counter Terrorism Police Headquarters (for Prevent), Department of Health and Social Care (for all healthcare …

The Department for Education, in finalising the Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance 2026, and in any necessary amendments to other policy …

The Department for Education should carry out an audit to ensure that safeguarding information is reliably being passed between schools and should …

The Department for Education should ensure (either by direct guidance or through Ofsted) that all schools are required to record safeguarding information …

Lancashire County Council should, by no later than 13 October 2026, carry out and report on an audit (preferably involving an experienced …

The Department for Education and the Home Office should review whether further guidance and/or minimum guidance is required in relation to local …

The Department for Education should ensure that (i) its own policy guidance for teachers and schools (outside the Statutory Guidance for which …