Aerated Concrete in Schools (RAAC)

Guidance published by the Department for Education on 31 August intended to help schools ‘understand how to identify Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete’ (RAAC) amongst growing safety concerns. RAAC is a form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and 1990s. …

Lessons in negligence prevention

Lessons in negligence prevention – running a hospital and failed risk management

Nine babies might have been saved or escaped harm had hospital managers and doctors not missed vital opportunities to stop Lucy Letby’s killing spree. On up to ten occasions, suspicions were raised or events happened that linked her to the …