Inquest
INQUEST is the only charity providing expertise on state related deaths and their investigation to bereaved people, lawyers, advice and support agencies, the media and parliamentarians. Our specialist casework includes deaths in police and prison custody, immigration detention, mental health settings and deaths involving multi-agency failings or where wider issues of state and corporate accountability are in question. This includes work around the Hillsborough football disaster and the Grenfell Tower fire.
INQUEST’s policy, parliamentary, campaigning and media work is grounded in the day to day experience of working with bereaved people. Employing an integrated model, this brings together casework support, family participation, identification of thematic trends, statistics and analysis that feeds into the organisation’s work on campaigning, information sharing and policy and parliamentary work. At the heart of this unique model are the experiences and needs of bereaved people. This integrated approach is crucial to families, not only in making sure their voices are heard and holding the state to account for individual deaths, but also in changing policy and practice to prevent future deaths.
We are entirely independent of government. Founded in 1981, we campaign alongside families and others to access the truth, hold those responsible to account and effect meaningful change to prevent future deaths.
SPECIALIST CASEWORK: We work directly with bereaved people, empowering them through the post-death processes of investigation and inquest to establish the truth about a death in the care of the state.
CAMPAIGNING: We use the direct evidence from our casework, alongside statistics and rigorous research, to exert pressure on public bodies and government and drive systemic change.
SHARING KNOWLEDGE: We are the only organisation with a comprehensive overview of deaths in custody and detention. We use our expertise and statistics to track patterns and trends and situate deaths in their broader social and political context.
SOCIAL JUSTICE: We work to improve the investigation and inquest process for all. We campaign for non means-tested public funding for families in state-related inquests and stronger post-death investigations. We lobby to ensure that government, state and corporate bodies are held to account and that action is taken in response to systemic failings.
Registered Charity No. 1046650
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