Jeffrey Warren
4 Aug 2015 · Coroner Bridget Dolan · West Sussex
The coroner's concerns
1. lack of formal review
“neither CBC nor WSCC have a yet undertaken any formal review of this case despite the death of someone known to both organisation and subject to a safeguarding alert at the time of his death”
2. hazardous electric fire
“potentially hazardous electric fire inside his home that had been supplied by his landlords (CBC) and that was left in situ from 14”
3. misuse of police resources
“WSCC Social Work staff sought to use police resources to conduct a non- urgent social welfare check, rather than allocating that check to an appropriate council employee”
4. lack of training on police welfare check criteria
“WSCC Social Work staff are not aware of, given any training regarding or provided with any information about the criteria likely to be applied by police for conducting welfare checks and/or the circumstances in which it is or is not appropriate to ask the police to conduct a welfare check”