Public Inquiry Recommendations

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 …

The Department for Education should undertake a targeted review, engaging with a representative sample of local authorities, to check both that the …

The Department for Education should consider what remedial steps can be put in place to assist in circumstances where, whether through underfunding …

The Youth Justice Board should ensure that a form of clear practical written guidance is drafted which relevant professionals (social care, healthcare, …

The Law Commission should be asked to review the merits of legal reform concerning whether specified categories of persons ought to be …