Source · Scotland · Fatal Accident Inquiry
Mark Barry
Scotland · FAI
Reference: [2021] FAI 12
Published: 9 Feb 2021
Sheriff: Christopher Dickson
Sheriffdom: Lothian and Borders
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Court recommendations
Identified
Responses identified
0
8-week deadline
6 Apr 2021
Section 28 status
Response pending
Recommendations
That the following recommendation is made: 1. That Sodexo should ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, that all staff trained on the “Talk to Me” strategy are aware: (i) of the limited circumstances when a “concern form” should be completed (see finding in fact 20); (ii) that a single member of staff, trained on the “Talk to Me” strategy, can place a prisoner on the “Talk to Me” strategy by completing an “initiation form”; and (iii) that once a prisoner is placed on the “Talk to Me” strategy the procedures in finding in fact 19 must be followed, which must include at least one case conference taking place within 24 hours.
Under section 28 of the 2016 Act, each recipient of a recommendation must respond within 8 weeks.
The window from publication ran to 6 April 2021.
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Section 28 responses
Response pendingThe SCTS search index reports 1 response, but supplies no public response page URL that this system can verify. This is an unresolved source-linkage gap, not evidence that no response was made.
Determination details
- Reference
- [2021] FAI 12
- Published
- 9 February 2021
- Sheriff
- Christopher Dickson
- Sheriffdom
- Lothian and Borders
- Date of death
- 3 June 1976
- Location
- the late Mark Barry, born 3 June 1976, died at 1423 hours
- Cause of death
- 3. In terms of section 26(2)(c) of the 2016 Act (the cause or causes of death):
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About FAIs
Fatal Accident Inquiries are held under the
2016 Act
before a sheriff. They are mandatory for deaths in custody and at work.
The sheriff may make recommendations under s.26(1)(b); recipients must respond within 8 weeks under
s.28. See the methodology page for detail.