Source · Scotland · Fatal Accident Inquiry
April Adam
Scotland · FAI
Reference: STI-B163-03
Published: 15 Dec 2003
Sheriff: Sheriff R.E.G. Younger
Sheriffdom: Tayside, Central and Fife
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Court recommendations
Identified
Responses identified
0
8-week deadline
9 Feb 2004
Section 28 status
Response pending
Recommendations
Should the Chair be the designated person to represent the prisoner (if there is to be such a designated person)?
Independently of all staff seeking to make contact with/make friends with/care for prisoners, which seems to be accepted by all as necessary and good, if a prisoner is placed on timed Observations should there be a designated person to carry out such Observations, and should such a designated person have an obligation to record such Obligations when accomplished?
Should timed Observations for low risk prisoners be used less frequently since their use as prevention of self-harm decreases with the length between Observations, or would this just increase the numbers of those assessed as of high risk in order to obtain such Observations?
But if not, when an ambulance should be summoned should be considered, and the answer to that should be made clear to all those liable to respond to Code Blue Alarms. (i)Code Blue Alarm: Entrance Blocked.
But consideration should be given, if this has not already happened, to Code Blue procedure involving some measure which would result in the expected path of a summoned ambulance on reaching Cornton Value being kept clear of obstruction.
Independently of all staff seeking to make contact with/make friends with/care for prisoners, which seems to be accepted by all as necessary and good, if a prisoner is placed on timed Observations should there be a designated person to carry out such Observations, and should such a designated person have an obligation to record such Obligations when accomplished?
Should timed Observations for low risk prisoners be used less frequently since their use as prevention of self-harm decreases with the length between Observations, or would this just increase the numbers of those assessed as of high risk in order to obtain such Observations?
But if not, when an ambulance should be summoned should be considered, and the answer to that should be made clear to all those liable to respond to Code Blue Alarms. (i)Code Blue Alarm: Entrance Blocked.
But consideration should be given, if this has not already happened, to Code Blue procedure involving some measure which would result in the expected path of a summoned ambulance on reaching Cornton Value being kept clear of obstruction.
Under section 28 of the 2016 Act, each recipient of a recommendation must respond within 8 weeks.
The window from publication ran to 9 February 2004.
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Determination details
- Reference
- STI-B163-03
- Published
- 15 December 2003
- Sheriff
- Sheriff R.E.G. Younger
- Sheriffdom
- Tayside, Central and Fife
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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.