SO bosses at Calderstones Hospital, Whalley, have caved in to the criticism of their refusal to reveal the full results of their inquiry into the death of 18-year-old patient Christopher Saunders who was founding hanging in shower cubicle last November.

We welcome this change of heart - and the report itself.

For, while the necessity for all public bodies to embrace full accountability goes without saying, this report shows how managerial wariness over it can often stem from the endemic climate of secrecy that pervades so many of our institutions when it need not be feared at all.

For, after all the unnecessary smokescreen put up by bosses over the tragic death of this young man, the report they sought to obscure turns out to be a valuable guide to future working practices in places like Calderstones - and one that needed no cover-up at all.

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