Lack of national interface for safeguarding record keeping
Department for Education received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 19 Nov 2019 and 3 Sept 2025.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from Department for Education was found for the earlier reports.
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“A further concern identified was that there was no mechanism for the school to be formally be aware of information within the Child and Family Assessment.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Department for Education was found for this report.
- 5 years 9 months later
Raised again · 1st time
Lucy-Anne Dyson↗
3 Sept 2025 · Darren Stewart · Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner“The lack of a national interface to enable reporting/communication between schools using safeguarding record keeping systems (e.g. CPOMS) and relevant agencies, including Police and Children's Services.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department for Education responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Department for Education
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2019 → 2025Lucy-Anne Dyson5 years 9 months after Katie Croft · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight the absence of a formal system for schools to receive or share safeguarding information with external agencies. The earlier report focuses on missing mechanisms for Child and Family Assessment data, while the later report calls for a national interface linking school safeguarding records with police and children's services.
Katie Croft · 19 Nov 2019
“A further concern identified was that there was no mechanism for the school to be formally be aware of information within the Child and Family Assessment.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Lucy-Anne Dyson · 3 Sept 2025
“The lack of a national interface to enable reporting/communication between schools using safeguarding record keeping systems (e.g. CPOMS) and relevant agencies, including Police and Children's Services.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Department for Education was found for this report.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Department for Education at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 → 2025 | 0.67 | 0.03 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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