Laura Gawthorpe · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 1 May 2024•West Yorkshire Eastern

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This report’s concerns and statements found in recipients’ published responses. Statements are included even where no link to an individual concern is recorded. A link shows an evidence connection; it does not assign responsibility.

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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised1

  1. Failure to provide complete fall-prevention fencing and barriers at car park levels
    Part of recurring concern: Inadequate control of falls risksPart of recurring concern: Inadequate physical barriers preventing access to dangerous drops or areas

Stated actions An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.1

  1. Leeds City Council

    Procure and install additional physical barriers at identified upper-floor locations and throughout the car park.

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Failure to provide complete fall-prevention fencing and barriers at car park levels

Wider context from the report

“(1) The evidence of West Yorkshire Police was that, by the erection of extensive fencing and barriers, measures have been put in place on levels ████████ at the car park to make it harder for people to fall from those levels, whether deliberately or accidentally. (2) The erection of similar measures on level ████████ has been only partial. The point from where Mrs Gawthorpe fell was identified by correlating her location on the ground with the location on level ████████ where she had left her phone before her fall. At that location, the parapet wall could still easily be climbed over. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Inadequate control of falls risks; Inadequate physical barriers preventing access to dangerous drops or areas.

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Procure and install additional physical barriers at identified upper-floor locations and throughout the car park.

Verbatim wording from the response

“Since receiving your report we have been working very closely with a range of partners, including The Samaritans, Leeds City Council Public Health, and internal colleagues including Leeds Building Services, (our internal building services team), health and safety, communications, and our design and architecture technical consultants at Norse Consulting Ltd. to deliver a range of new prevention measures in relation to suicide at ████████. As part of our action plan, we have now finalised a technical specification for additional physical barriers at the locations you have identified on the ████████ floor and throughout the car park. A significant part of the car park already has barriers which have been installed at various times since the car park was originally built.”

Source location

2024-0242 - Response from Leeds City Council
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Published 14 May 2024

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