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Practice Briefing: building a screening programme

A defensible screening programme starts from a written risk assessment, not a tool. Calibrate the screening to the risk, then document the escalation path and the testing.

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In short

A defensible screening programme starts from a written risk assessment, not a tool. The detail, and the source links, follow in the published version.

Written by Henry Ashworth. General information only — see the notice below.

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