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Posted on: 16 Oct 2023

Family says ‘lack of accountability’ left woman with eating disorder ‘at risk and vulnerable’

The family of a woman who died in a house fire in Blackpool in 2019 have today said a ‘lack of accountability’ combined with a lack of understanding and training about eating disorders across the local NHS trust and the local authority had left her ‘at risk and vulnerable’.

Posted on: 21 Oct 2022

Family to Challenge Coroner’s Decision not to Issue Prevention of Future Deaths Report

The family of a young man who died after he suffered an asthma attack while locked in his cell at HMP Stocken have been granted permission to challenge the coroner’s decision not to issue a Regulation 28 ‘Prevention of Future Deaths’ (PFD) report.

Posted on: 04 Feb 2022

What are Your Rights if Medical Professionals Failed to Prevent a Suicide?

If you’ve lost someone to suicide, could more have been done by medical professionals to prevent them from taking their own life?

Posted on: 29 Jul 2020

Why World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is Important

The UK is a destination country for the many women, children and men who are trafficked here from around the world and domestically for the purposes of sexual slavery, forced criminality, and forced labour.

Posted on: 12 Feb 2019

Help for Children Affected by County Lines

There’s been lots of discussion in the media recently about the dramatic increase in children being exploited for the purposes of county lines. But what support is available to children affected by this form of modern day slavery?

Posted on: 11 Jan 2019

Local Authority Support for Age Disputed Asylum Seekers Explained

More often than not, young asylum seekers arrive in the UK without any official identity document issued by their home country. In many instances, the young people were never issued with a passport or other ID, or have fled war and violence, so have left the vast majority of their belongings behind.

Posted on: 14 Sept 2018

Inquest Finds Suicide Victim's Death was Contributed to by Neglect

The devastated family of a man who committed suicide after repeated calls for help ‘fell on deaf ears’ have called for more to be done to prevent future tragedies after an Inquest into his death found that the NHS Trust responsible for his care was at fault.