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. 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 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.

Founded by bereaved families and other campaigners in 1981, INQUEST continues to be independent of government and campaigns alongside families and others to access the truth, hold those responsible to account and effect meaningful change to prevent future deaths.