Inadequate out-of-hours information sharing in SCARF process
Surrey Police received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 22 Dec 2023 and 18 Sept 2024.
They came from 2 different coroners. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 0 specific actions.
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“The use of the SCARF process during out of hours to provide timely and effective passage of information in relation to concerns for vulnerable persons in the community.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Surrey Police responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 9 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.95 · higha different coroner
“(3) The SCARF process does not enable information sharing between the Police, Mental Health Agencies and Surrey Adult Safeguarding out of hours.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:SCARFprocessinformationhours
Surrey Police responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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2023 → 2024Helen Kerr9 months after Barbara Woodman · different coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.95 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.95 · highBoth reports identify that the SCARF process fails to share information out of hours, hindering timely response to vulnerable persons.
Barbara Woodman · 22 Dec 2023
“The use of the SCARF process during out of hours to provide timely and effective passage of information in relation to concerns for vulnerable persons in the community.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Helen Kerr · 18 Sept 2024
“(3) The SCARF process does not enable information sharing between the Police, Mental Health Agencies and Surrey Adult Safeguarding out of hours.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
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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 Surrey Police 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 → 2024 | 0.82 | 0.32 | Identical · 0.95 | different |
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