Latest changes to APP

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Date	Category	Guidance	Changes
18 March 2025	Major investigation and public protection > Investigating child abuse and safeguarding children > Police response to investigating child abuse	Risk and associated investigations	Link to the old 'A Guide to Investigating Child Death’ has been updated and replaced with the new 'Practice advice on child death investigation'
10 March 2025	Professional standards	Vetting	A notice has been added to state that the Vetting APP should now be read with the judgment of the High Court in Di Maria v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis Supplementary guidance (judgement Di Maria v Met) document has also been added to the supporting materials section.
4 March 2025	Major investigation and public protection > Homicide	Homicide - Guidance overview	Link to guidance on child death updated to NPCC (2025) Practice Advice on Child Death Investigation - https://library.college.police.uk/docs/NPCC/Practice-advice-child-death-investigation-2024-V1.03.pdf replacing the old link.
25 February 2025	Mobilisation	Mobilisation	Updated link to NPCC National Policing Guidelines on Charging for Police Services to 2024 guidance.
20 February 2025	Civil emergencies > Disaster victim identification	Recovering and identifying the deceased and human remains	Wording changed under VHAA section to ensure clarification
20 February 2025	Civil emergencies > Disaster victim identification	Recovering and identifying the deceased and human remains	Wording added under reconciliation files to reflect guidance on recording gender on reconciliation reports.
13 February 2025	Civil emergencies > Disaster victim identification	Health, safety, wellbeing and welfare	Link to 'Striking the balance between operational and health and safety duties in the Police Service' has been updated from 2009 version to the most recent (2018) version.
11 February 2025	Civil emergencies > Disaster victim identification	DVI roles and responsibilities	Entire section has been subject to review through the APP maintenance process. This includes wording changes, reordering, additional information added, and existing information deleted. Changes include: SIM responsibilities added: assume overall responsibility for the management of the DVI process, liaising with the Welfare Tactical Commander with regard to managing and assessing risk, health, safety, welfare and wellbeing issues Coroner changed to HM Coroner New section on Procurator Fiscal Casualty Bureau has been re drafted and significant detail added CBSAP 2024 reference added Family Liaison coordinator, advisor and officer section subject to considerable amendments and updates Links updated where necessary New section on fire and rescue services including urban search and rescue (USAR) added New section on HART added New section on NILOs added Restructuring throughout entire section
10 February 2025	Civil emergencies > Disaster victim identification	Additional arrangements for contaminated fatalities	Diagram added the the bottom of the page as well as a link to the CBRN contaminated fatalities briefing guide.
7 February 2025	Civil emergencies > Disaster victim identification	Additional arrangements for contaminated fatalities	Title of the page has changed from 'Additional arrangements for contaminated fatalities' to 'Dealing with contaminated fatalities' CBRN incident section has been redrafted The last bullet point has been changed from: 'the needs of the bereaved families are taken into account in the disaster victim identification (DVI) process, without jeopardising the safety of the family or other responders involved in the process' To: 'the needs of the bereaved families are taken into account in the disaster victim identification (DVI) process'