Herbert Laming, Baron Laming

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William Herbert Laming, Baron Laming, CBE (born 19 July 1936) is a social worker and politician.

He was chief inspector of the Social Services Inspectorate from 1991 until 1998, and was created a life peer in 1998 as Baron Laming, of Tewin in the County of Hertfordshire. Lord Laming chaired the public inquiry over the murder of Victoria Climbié. The Laming report investigated the role of social services, the National Health Service and the police in her death. It also found that on at least 12 occasions care workers could have saved her life. The highly critical report has led to further reforms of the way in which child protection measures are implemented in the UK, including the creation of a Universal Child Database to keep track of every child in Britain in order to better co-ordinate the notes of doctors and social workers