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Scope for building on recent developments

13 To point to the potential for improvement and to possible shortcomings in the arrangements currently being established or proposed is not to criticise for its own sake. It is really to recall our central concern: can we be sure that events similar to those which happened in Bristol are not happening now or will not happen in the future? If we cannot be sure, and we do not think that we can be, we must highlight shortcomings in the various current proposals which prevent us from being so. We believe that more attention needs to be given to co-ordinating the setting of standards; addressing uncertainty where there are no standards; ensuring that standards are sufficiently comprehensive; and improving the ways in which standards are monitored. We deal with each of these in turn.