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Education

Recommendations related to education

29 recommendations 55% accepted

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Government Response
Accepted (13)
Accepted in Part (3)
Under Review (1)
Awaiting Response (12)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 10 inquiries

Across 10 inquiries

Tagged Recommendations

29 total
SP57 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

Agencies to respect school insight on risk

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

Home Office
SP58 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

KCSIE 2026 safeguarding information transfer

The Department for Education, in finalising the Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance 2026, and in any necessary amendments to other policy and guidance, should ensure that: 1. In cases …

Department for Education
SP59 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

Audit of safeguarding information transfer between schools

The Department for Education should carry out an audit to ensure that safeguarding information is reliably being passed between schools and should consider what further role Ofsted may play to …

Department for Education
SP60 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

School safeguarding recording systems

The Department for Education should ensure (either by direct guidance or through Ofsted) that all schools are required to record safeguarding information in a system that is fit for purpose.

Department for Education
SP61 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

LCC education provision and attendance audit

Lancashire County Council should, by no later than 13 October 2026, carry out and report on an audit (preferably involving an experienced independent external member) to review: 1. The speed …

Lancashire County Council
SP62 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

Guidance on LEA and police visits to absent children

The Department for Education and the Home Office should review whether further guidance and/or minimum guidance is required in relation to local education authority and police visits to children not …

Department for Education
SP63 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

Improved school Prevent training

The Department for Education should ensure that (i) its own policy guidance for teachers and schools (outside the Statutory Guidance for which the Home Office is responsible) is strengthened; and …

Department for Education
SP64 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

Review of school attendance monitoring guidance

The Department for Education should undertake a targeted review, engaging with a representative sample of local authorities, to check both that the current (improved) guidance is now sufficient and understood …

Department for Education
SP65 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

Remedial steps for failing education authorities

The Department for Education should consider what remedial steps can be put in place to assist in circumstances where, whether through underfunding or underperformance, local education authorities are failing to …

Department for Education
SP66 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

Guidance for parents of children found with weapons

The Youth Justice Board should ensure that a form of clear practical written guidance is drafted which relevant professionals (social care, healthcare, police, education) can provide to parents of children …

Youth Justice Board for …
SP67 Response Pending Southport Inquiry

Law Commission review of duty to warn/report

The Law Commission should be asked to review the merits of legal reform concerning whether specified categories of persons ought to be under a legal duty to warn about, or …

Law Commission
P2-24 Under Consideration Fuller Inquiry

Anatomical education security and dignity policies

All organisations providing anatomical education and training using donors should make sure that policies and procedures are in place to ensure the security and dignity of donors. These should include: …

- The government stated in December 2025 that this recommendation on security of body donors in anatomical examination facilities was under consideration. Full government response …
Department of Health and…
P2-16 Accepted Grenfell Tower Inquiry

Increase Masters-level fire engineering course places

That the government take urgent steps to increase the number of places on high-quality masters level courses in fire engineering accredited by the professional regulator. (113.25)

- The government accepted this recommendation in February 2025, recognising the value of increasing fire engineering master's level courses (Government Response to Grenfell Tower Inquiry …
UK Government
P2-19 Accepted Grenfell Tower Inquiry

Review architect education and training for fire safety

We recognise that both the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have taken steps since the Grenfell Tower fire to improve the education and …

- ARB and RIBA accepted this recommendation in February 2025, noting both had taken steps since the Grenfell Tower fire to improve education and training …
ARB/RIBA
IBI-3a Accepted Infected Blood Inquiry

Medical Education - Curriculum

The General Medical Council, and NHS Education for Scotland, Health Education and Improvement Wales, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency and NHS England, should take steps to ensure that …

- The Government stated in December 2024 that a combined working group including NHS England, four-nation blood services, and statutory education bodies had been established …
GMC UK Government
IBI-3b Accepted Infected Blood Inquiry

Medical Education - Training Materials

They should look favourably upon putting together a package of training materials, with excerpts from oral and written testimony, to underpin what can happen in healthcare, and must be avoided …

- The Government stated in December 2024 that a Patient Safety Syllabus would incorporate Inquiry testimony through case studies and workshops, and that four-nation statutory …
GMC UK Government
IBI-3c Accepted Infected Blood Inquiry

Inquiry Website Preservation

The Inquiry website is maintained online

- The Government stated in December 2024 that the transfer of the Inquiry website to The National Archives was underway, and that options to maintain …
UK Government
IBI-7d Accepted in Part Infected Blood Inquiry

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 intend to be, working in the NHS ensure …

- The Government's implementation dashboard records this recommendation as: Accepted in principle by the UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government, Northern Ireland Executive (Infected Blood …
UK Government
ANG-22 No Response Angiolini Inquiry

Information and early intervention for men and boys

By September 2026, the Home Office, working closely with the Department for Education, the Ministry of Justice, and the Department of Health and Social Care, should increase and improve the …

- This is a Part 2 recommendation from the Angiolini Inquiry Part 2 First Report, published 2 December 2025, calling for increased and improved information, …
Home Office
FR-4 Accepted in Part IICSA

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 sexual abuse and the action to take if …

- In May 2023, the government stated it would continue funding awareness campaigns including Stop Abuse Together, Look Closer, ParentWise and No Place To Hide …
UK Government
8 Accepted in Part IICSA

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 place of education within the scope of the …

- On 2 March 2022, the UK government stated that it had consulted on legislating to amend registration requirements for independent educational institutions in 2020 …
UK Government
IHRD-67 Accepted Hyponatraemia Inquiry

Informing Teaching Authorities

Should findings from investigation or review imply inadequacy in current programmes of medical or nursing education then the relevant teaching authority should be informed.

HSC Trusts
22 Accepted Morecambe Bay Investigation

Recognise educational opportunities in smaller units

We believe that the educational opportunities afforded by smaller units, particularly in delivering a broad range of care with a high personal level of responsibility, have been insufficiently recognised and …

- In July 2015, the government stated: "We accept this recommendation in principle" and confirmed that Health Education England had established a working group to …
NHS England
F155 Accepted Mid Staffs Inquiry

Medical training

The General Medical Council should set out a standard requirement for routine visits to each local education provider, and programme in accordance with the following principles: The Postgraduate Dean should …

- The GMC published "Promoting Excellence: Standards for Medical Education and Training" in 2015, replacing "Tomorrow's Doctors" (2009) and "The Trainee Doctor" (2011). The standards …
GMC
F171 Accepted Mid Staffs Inquiry

Deans

All Local Education and Training Boards should have a post of medically qualified postgraduate dean responsible for all aspects of postgraduate medical education.

- Health Education England established Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs) across England, each with a medically qualified postgraduate dean responsible for all aspects of …
NHS England Health Education England
R16 Accepted Bichard Inquiry

Interview training for headteachers

Head teachers and school governors should receive training on how to ensure that interviews to appoint staff reflect the importance of safeguarding children.

DfES
R17 Accepted Bichard Inquiry

Trained panel member requirement

From a date to be agreed, no interview panel to appoint staff working in schools should be convened without at least one member being properly trained.

DfES
R18 Accepted Bichard Inquiry

Inspection of school recruitment

The relevant inspection bodies should, as part of their inspection, review the existence and effectiveness of a school's selection and recruitment arrangements.

DfES
R21 Accepted Bichard Inquiry

Enhanced Disclosure for school staff

All posts, including those in schools, that involve working with children, and vulnerable adults, should be subject to the Enhanced Disclosure regime.

Home Office