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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

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Code	Recommendation	Inquiry	Response
IBI-7d	Training in Transfusion Medicine Training in Transfusion Medicine: That those bodies concerned with undergraduate and postgraduate training across the UK of those people who are, or …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7e	Implementing SHOT Reports Implementing SHOT reports: That all NHS organisations across the UK have a mechanism in place for implementing recommendations of Serious Hazard of …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-7f(iii)	Blood Tracking Systems Funding Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: That funding for the provision of enhanced electronic clinical systems in relation to blood transfusion be …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-10a(iv)	Thalassaemia Society Support Particular consideration be given, together with the UK Thalassaemia Society and the Sickle Cell Society, to how the needs of patients with …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11a	Ministerial Power to Call Inquiries That a minister should retain the power to call an inquiry as the minister sees fit, in accordance with the Inquiries Act …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11b	Parliamentary Referral to PACAC If there is sufficient support from within Parliament for there to be an inquiry, the question whether there should be one should …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11c	PACAC Recommendation Power If it appears to PACAC that there is sufficient concern to justify a public inquiry, either because what happened and why has …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-11d	Ministerial Reasons for Disagreement If the minister disagrees with the recommendation, they must set out in detail and publish reasons for this disagreement which are sufficient …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-12d	PACAC Oversight of Implementation The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (“PACAC”) should review both the progress towards responding to the Inquiry’s recommendations and, to the …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
IBI-12e	PACAC Role for Future Inquiries PACAC should accept the role in respect of any future statutory inquiry of reviewing the government’s timetable for consideration of recommendations, and …	Infected Blood Inquiry (2024)	Accepted in Part
FR-1	Single Core Data Set The Inquiry recommends that the UK government and the Welsh Government improve data collected by children's social care and criminal justice agencies …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-2	Child Protection Authorities The Inquiry recommends that the UK government establishes a Child Protection Authority for England and the Welsh Government establishes a Child Protection …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-4	Public Awareness Campaign The Inquiry recommends that the UK government and the Welsh Government commission regular programmes of activity to increase public awareness about child …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-6	Amend Children Act 1989 The Inquiry recommends that the UK government amends the Children Act 1989 so that, in any case where a court is satisfied …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-7	Registration of Care Home Staff The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its Interim Report, dated April 2018) that the UK government introduces arrangements for the registration …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-8	Registration in Young Offender Institutions The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its Sexual Abuse of Children in Custodial Institutions: 2009-2017 Investigation Report, dated February 2019) that …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-9	Greater Use of DBS The Inquiry recommends that the UK government enables any person engaging an individual to work or volunteer with children on a frequent …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-10	Improve DBS Referral Compliance The Inquiry recommends that the UK government takes steps to improve compliance by regulated activity providers with their statutory duty to refer …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-11	Extend Disclosure Regime Overseas The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its Children Outside the United Kingdom Phase 2 Investigation Report, dated January 2020) that the …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-12	Pre-screening by Internet Providers The Inquiry recommends that the UK government makes it mandatory for all regulated providers of search services and user-to-user services to pre-screen …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-13	Mandatory Reporting The Inquiry recommends that the UK government and Welsh Government introduce legislation which places certain individuals - 'mandated reporters' - under a …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-14	Victim Code Compliance The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its Interim Report, dated April 2018) that the UK government commissions a joint inspection of …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-15	Remove Limitation Period The Inquiry recommends that the UK government makes the necessary changes to legislation in order to ensure: the removal of the three-year …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-16	Specialist Therapeutic Support The Inquiry recommends that the UK government and the Welsh Government introduce a national guarantee that child victims of sexual abuse will …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-17	Code of Practice on Records Access The Inquiry recommends that the UK government directs the Information Commissioner's Office to introduce a code of practice on retention of and …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-18	Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme Changes The Inquiry recommends that the UK government changes the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme to: include other forms of child sexual abuse, including …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-19	Tiered Redress Scheme The Inquiry recommends that the UK government establishes a single redress scheme in England and Wales, taking into account devolved responsibilities. The …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
FR-20	Age Verification Online The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its The Internet Investigation Report, dated March 2020) that the UK government introduces legislation requiring …	IICSA (2022)	Accepted in Part
27	Professional registration for custodial care staff As the Inquiry set out in its Interim Report, professional registration of the workforce in settings responsible for the care of vulnerable …	IICSA (2019)	Accepted in Part
97	Clarify Compensation Act on apologies The government should introduce legislation revising the Compensation Act 2006 to clarify that section 2 facilitates apologies or offers of treatment or …	IICSA (2019)	Accepted in Part
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
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
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
5	Require proper cell sharing risk assessments The Home Office must ensure that adequate risk assessment for cell sharing is carried out by contractors in relation to every detained …	Brook House Inquiry (2023)	Accepted in Part
6	Review and reduce cell lock-in periods The Home Office, in consultation with the contractor responsible for operating each immigration removal centre, must review the current lock-in regime and …	Brook House Inquiry (2023)	Accepted in Part
8	Mandatory comprehensive Rule 34 and Rule 35 training The Home Office (in collaboration with NHS England as required) must ensure that comprehensive training on Rule 34 and Rule 35 of …	Brook House Inquiry (2023)	Accepted in Part

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