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Committee of Inquiry into the Personality Disorder Unit, Ashworth Special Hospital...
Catalogue reference: JA 2
What's it about?
JA 2
This series contains the papers of the Fallon Inquiry into the Personality Disorder Unit at Ashworth Special Hospital. These include a set of transcripts of proceedings, together with submissions by witnesses.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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JA 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee of Inquiry into the Personality Disorder Unit, Ashworth Special Hospital (Fallon Inquiry): Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1975-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the papers of the Fallon Inquiry into the Personality Disorder Unit at Ashworth Special Hospital. These include a set of transcripts of proceedings, together with submissions by witnesses.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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FIK file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Health, 1988-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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118 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2003-2014 Department of Health
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Mental illness
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Apart from most of the transcripts and the published reports, the majority of the records contain personally sensitive medical details which are closed for the anticipated lifetime of the individuals concerned. Records relating to the administrative support to the inquiry were not selected.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Appointed by the Secretary of State for Health in Feb 1997 to investigate the functioning of the Personality Disorder Unit (PDU) at Ashworth Special Hospital, the inquiry was chaired by His Honour Peter Fallon QC, former Senior Circuit Judge and Recorder of Bristol. It investigated allegations made by a former patient, Steven Daggett, about the misuse of drugs and alcohol, financial irregularities, possible paedophile activity and the availability of pornographic material on the Unit. In the light of their investigations, the inquiry was also asked to review the following: policies, clinical care and procedures on the Unit; security arrangements; management arrangements for assuring effective clinical care and appropriate security for patients; and arrangements for visiting on the Unit. The report of the inquiry was presented to Parliament (Cm 4194-II), in January 1999.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15004/
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