20 February 2020

The coroner for Errol Graham says she will push DWP on promised safeguarding review (which persuaded her not to submit a prevention of future deaths (PFD) report). 

What: Dr Elizabeth Didcock, Nottingham’s assistant coroner, promises to press DWP on what has happened to a safeguarding review that the department told her it was carrying out during the inquest into Errol Graham’s death. This promise had at the time persuaded her that she did not need to write a prevention of future deaths report to demand changes from DWP.

Why significant: Further evidence of DWP evading responsibility for deaths related to their policies and safeguarding issues.