Campaigning for independent coronial investigation after stillbirth where concerns about care exist. Access to justice should not depend on respiration.
England, United Kingdom
Joined March 2026
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…investigation into National Health Service maternity hand neonatal services, the Governmenth yhas committed to publishing a response to the 2019 consultation in due course. The five-year period provided for by section 4 of fthe 2019 act begins on the date when the…
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…published in 2023, set out the feedback received from respondents but did not give a Government view on whether, and if so how, the law ought to be changed to enable or require coroners to investigate stillbirths.
Following the publication of Baroness Amos’ independent…
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21.10.26 - HL 3817 - Baroness Merron
The Department of Health and Social Care and the Ministry of Justice jointly consulted on proposals to provide coroners with new powers to investigate term stillbirths in 2019. The factual summary of responses to the consultation…
Welcome confirmation that the factual summary was not the report. No future government should treat it as starting the five-year clock.
Yet seven and a half years after the duty was introduced, the report remains due “in due course”.
Families deserve a date.
The harm may be the same. The failures may be the same.
Why should the opportunity for independent scrutiny, and to prevent another death, depend on whether a baby took a breath?
Same harm. Same justice.
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The cause may be the same. The result may be the same. Only the timing may differ.
Why should a baby who died before taking a breath receive less independent scrutiny?
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A new week. The same demand.
Where care may have failed a baby, access to independent coronial scrutiny should not depend on whether they were born alive.
Same harm. Same justice.
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This week the case for independent scrutiny of stillbirths reached national TV and ministers.
We welcome engagement. Now we need clear answers, a timetable and action.
Being heard is a start. What changes next is what counts.
@SkyNews @MoJGovUK @SophyRidgeSky @AlexDaviesJones
As Baby Loss Awareness Week ends, our babies remain part of our families.
Remembering who they were goes hand in hand with asking why they died.
Same harm. Same justice.
#BLAW
Yesterday’s meeting was constructive, but reassurances need to be followed by commitments.
Seven years after Parliament passed the legislation, we are still waiting for the statutory report.
We are asking for clarity, accountability and a timetable.
Same harm. Same justice.
We're grateful to have our campaign supported in @ukparliament - Babies who die must be afforded the same investigative routes - there should be no breath required.
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And importantly please ask your MP to lobby ministers to enact Clause 4 of my Civil Partnerships, Marriages & Deaths Act which gives owers to coroners to investigate stillbirths. Despite becoming law in 2019 after my long campaign in Parliament it has still not beeen brought in.
Thanks to @MichelleWelshMP for mentioning our campaign in tonight’s debate.
The response we’ve received today has been positive.
Thanks also to @RosieDuffield1, @timloughton @AlexDaviesJones, Baroness Merron and @YvetteCooperMP.
And to @SophyRidgeSky and @WilfredFrost
This afternoon we met the @AlexDaviesJones and Baroness Merron regarding coroner policy.
We pressed for commitment to a timescale and answers to the questions we have raised.
Ministers confirmed the 2023 factual summary did not constitute ‘the report’.
Thank you for your time.
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Today at last I have a meeting with Health and Justice Ministers to enact Clause 4 of my Civil Partnerships, Marriages & Deaths Act giving powers to coroners to investigate stillbirths which became law in 2019 after my long campaign in Parliament. Please lobby your MP to support
I spoke to @SkyNews about why stillborn babies like Aubrey are denied access to coroners.
Parliament acted in 2019. Seven years later: no report, no timetable.
One breath should not decide whether a baby’s death can be investigated.
@SophyRidgeSky @WilfredFrost @RidgeandFrost
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Another wrong.Another power dynamic waged against babies, families, truths & safer care.
Babies continue to be regarded as second class citizens in England; not offered the same basic level of humanity as ‘children’ & adults.
Keep going @DadOfAubrey
#maternity #justice #BLAW
I spoke to @SkyNews about why stillborn babies like Aubrey are denied access to coroners.
Parliament acted in 2019. Seven years later: no report, no timetable.
One breath should not decide whether a baby’s death can be investigated.
@SophyRidgeSky @WilfredFrost @RidgeandFrost
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Please listen to this heartbreaking interview
Stillborn babies are denied access to coroners. This means there’s an incentive not to record “signs of life” - like a breath.
If we are serious about NHS transparency - and how we can improve care - let’s start here:
I spoke to @SkyNews about why stillborn babies like Aubrey are denied access to coroners.
Parliament acted in 2019. Seven years later: no report, no timetable.
One breath should not decide whether a baby’s death can be investigated.
@SophyRidgeSky @WilfredFrost @RidgeandFrost
Seven years after Parliament required the Government to report on coroners investigating stillbirths, families are still waiting.
The Government must now finish the job.
Same harm. Same justice.
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@SophyRidgeSky @WilfredFrost @SkyNews @RidgeandFrost
I spoke to @SkyNews about why stillborn babies like Aubrey are denied access to coroners.
Parliament acted in 2019. Seven years later: no report, no timetable.
One breath should not decide whether a baby’s death can be investigated.
@SophyRidgeSky @WilfredFrost @RidgeandFrost