The welfare and safety of those who engage with the Inquiry is important to the Chair and her team. If we identify a risk in the course of our work, we may need to take action to address it.
There may be cases in which the Inquiry team would need to share information without the consent of the person or people involved. This would include if:
- we identified a safeguarding risk to a child;
- we identified a risk of serious harm to an adult;
- we identified a risk relating to a serious crime; or
- we were ordered by a court of law or required by some other legal reason.
In such cases, we would need to share information about this risk with the relevant authority, such as the police or social care. Unless it would place you or anyone else at risk, the Inquiry team would inform you about the information we are sharing, with whom we are sharing it and why.