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Pre-inquest brief

Lack of clear guidance on ligature incidents and self-harm risk

Organisation: Care Quality Commission · Generated: 26 Oct 2026

Recurance · recurance.com/chains/798c4a9a47f2e42c

The earlier warning

Francesca Whyatt · 21 Aug 2017 · Karon Monaghan, London Inner (West)

“There is no clear guidance or criteria on the circumstances in which a ligature incident/s (or other self-harming incident/s) should be treated as an SUI such as to trigger an SUI investigation.”

judiciary.uk/…/francesca-whyatt-2

What was promised

A published response was found, but no specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.

What recurred

  • 6 Sept 2019 · Shannon Quinn · Zafar Siddique · Closely related · confidence 0.90 (high)

The clearest link, quoted from both reports:

Earlier · Francesca Whyatt · 21 Aug 2017

“There is no clear guidance or criteria on the circumstances in which a ligature incident/s (or other self-harming incident/s) should be treated as an SUI such as to trigger an SUI investigation.”

Later · Shannon Quinn · 6 Sept 2019

“There was an escalating risk of use of ligatures and incidents of self-harm and little if any measures were introduced to try and provide a ligature free environment.”

What happened next

No web check of the stated actions has been published for this chain.

Every quote is verified word for word against the original report on judiciary.uk. A link shows that a similar concern was raised again, not why. It is not a finding about any organisation or person.

Source: Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, Open Government Licence v3.0.