Tessa Summers
22 Aug 2014 · Coroner David Horsley · Portsmouth & South East Hampshire
The coroner's concerns
1. lack of documentation of rationale for risk assessment changes
“I heard in evidence that the social workers who decided on amendments to [the deceased]'s risk assessment did not record in that document their rationale for downgrading her from high to low risk of self-harm and allowing her to have access to her medication which she could then take without supervision by her Shared Lives Carer”
Responses
2014-0383-Response-by-Hampshire-County-Council.pdf ↗· Hampshire County Council
Stated action · end of November 2014
“We will be undertaking a review of the training and support needs of the Shared Lives Carers when working alongside people with mental health and emotional problems. We will have reached conclusions on this by end of November 2014.”