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Professor Phil Scraton School of Law Queen's University Belfast and Hillsborough Independent Panel's research team lead discusses common threads in the fight for justice faced by bereaved families.
This is our last episode of series 1 of Doctor Informed, and with it we're coming full circle. Clara will be talking to our first two guests, Mary Dixon-Woods and Bill Kirkup, having now heard from all of our other experts over this series. In this first series, we've learned about speaking out, team work, compassionate leadership - all the things that are needed to help clinicians challenge the status quo, So in this episode, we'll be asking Mary how much she thinks things have changed, and Bill how he manages a career challenging the healthcare system. Our guests Mary Dixon-Woods is director of THIS Institute, and a Health Foundation Professor of Healthcare Improvement Studies in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Her work is concerned with generating a high quality evidence-base to support the organisation, quality and safety of care delivered to patients. For links to the work that Mary talked about visit https://www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/ Bill Kirkup is a clinician turned investigator - he led investigations into failings at a maternity and neonatal unit in Morcambe Bay, into the Oxford paediatric cardiac surgery unit and into Jimmy Savile's involvement with Broadmoor Hospital. He was also a member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel
The French government and police are blaming Liverpool fans for disorder at this season's European Cup Final, which held up kick off by 36 minutes. Football's European governing body UEFA also pointed an accusing finger at Reds' supporters, but hundreds of supporters testimonies tell a different story - one of official incompetence and poor communication which could have ended in tragedy.Adrian Goldberg hears from Liverpool fan John Marquis who was at the match, and Professor Phil Scraton, Professor of Law at Queens University, Belfast, who led to the research for the Hillsborough Independent Panel.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White.Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The French government and police are blaming Liverpool fans for disorder at this season's European Cup Final, which held up kick off by 36 minutes. Football's European governing body UEFA also pointed an accusing finger at Reds' supporters, but hundreds of supporters testimonies tell a different story - one of official incompetence and poor communication which could have ended in tragedy. Adrian Goldberg hears from Liverpool fan John Marquis who was at the match, and Professor Phil Scraton, Professor of Law at Queens University, Belfast, who led to the research for the Hillsborough Independent Panel. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times.
Steven Spielberg's remake of the musical West Side Story has hit the big screen and with it there is renewed interest in its origins as a story of two lovers divided by religion. The man behind the screenplay for the new version, award winning writer Tony Kushner tells Edward about the film's Jewish roots. In a candid interview with Edward, the former Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones talks about his latest book ‘Justice for Christ's Sake' in which he which draws heavily on the lessons he learnt while chairing the Hillsborough Independent Panel. This week the Government reaffirmed its commitment to banning so-called Conversion Therapy. BBC Religious Affairs Journalist Harry Farley talks us through the government's proposals and two Christians with very different views respond to the plans. Reverend Graham Nicholls is Director of Affinity - a Fellowship of Churches, Evangelical Agencies and Christians. He fears a new law would criminalise the teaching of traditional Christian beliefs on marriage. Elinor Kershaw of the Quaker Gender and Sexual Diversity Community thinks the plans may not go far enough. We hear how a delay in plans to reform marriage law in England and Wales has left thousands in unregistered religious marriages without legal protection. Edward speaks to Roxana Rais of the Muslim Women's Advisory Council, and Russell Sandberg, Professor of Law at Cardiff University and Author of ‘Religion and Marriage Law'. And as the last in a trio of reports looking at Anti-Semitism on Social Media is published, Dr Julian Hargreaves, Director of Research at the Woolf Institute, explains its findings. And Sunday listeners tell is what makes for truly great Christmas music. Producers: Jill Collins and Louise Clarke Rowbotham Editor: Helen Grady
When you hear the reports from a major patient safety issue, it will be shocking to hear how they have played out - but the patterns in behaviour, of people and institutions which have gone disastrously wrong, can be seen throughout healthcare. As this first series of Doctor Informed unfolds, we'll be exploring these patterns, and bring you evidence and expertise on tackling them - Doctor Informed is about going beyond medical knowledge to make you the best doctor you can be. In this first episode we're talking to experts who have seen these patterns firsthand, and whose work is all about tackling them; Bill Kirkup is a clinician turned investigator - he ed investigations into failings at a maternity and neonatal unit in Morcambe Bay, into the Oxford paediatric cardiac surgery unit and into Jimmy Savile's involvement with Broadmoor Hospital. He was also a member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel Mary Dixon-Woods is director of THIS Insitute, and a Health Foundation Professor of Healthcare Improvement Studies in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Her work is concerned with generating a high quality evidence-base to support the organisation, quality and safety of care delivered to patients.
On this week's Aftermath, hear the incredible, heart-wrenching, interview with Phil Scraton (author/criminologist) who was a member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel and author of Hillsborough - The Truth. Tell us who you think is to blame at http://thealarmistpodcast.comEmail us at thealarmistpodcast@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram @thealarmistpodcastFollow us on Twitter @alarmistTheCall the Earios hotline! 844-370-8643 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/alarmist. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Lizzi Doyle is joined by Professor Phil Scraton, well known figure in the city for his incredible and selfless work with the Hillsborough Independent Panel. Phil stopped by for a cup of tea and to talk about what he's been up to recently as well as his thoughts on the reds next season.
Professor Phil Scraton is Professor Emeritus at the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast. A criminologist and author, he's director of the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative and was lead researcher of the Hillsborough Independent Panel. Born into a working class family in Wallasey in the Wirral in 1949, he attended a seminary at the age of 12. Deciding the religious life was not for him he worked as a bus conductor before attending Liverpool University where he read Sociology. His early work with Travellers and Liverpool's black community led to an interest in deaths in custody and prison conditions. Then, following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 he would spend the next 28 years researching and writing about the disaster - his book Hillsborough: The Truth was first published in 1999. The Hillsborough Independent Panel's 2012 report led to a second inquest which concluded in April 2016 that the 96 people who died had been unlawfully killed and that fans behaviour had not contributed to the disaster in any way. Phil and his partner, Deena, have lived in Belfast since 2003. He has two grown-up sons from his first marriage. Presenter: Kirsty Young Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
Professor Phil Scraton is Professor Emeritus at the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast. A criminologist and author, he's director of the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative and was lead researcher of the Hillsborough Independent Panel. Born into a working class family in Wallasey in the Wirral in 1949, he attended a seminary at the age of 12. Deciding the religious life was not for him he worked as a bus conductor before attending Liverpool University where he read Sociology. His early work with Travellers and Liverpool's black community led to an interest in deaths in custody and prison conditions. Then, following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 he would spend the next 28 years researching and writing about the disaster - his book Hillsborough: The Truth was first published in 1999. The Hillsborough Independent Panel's 2012 report led to a second inquest which concluded in April 2016 that the 96 people who died had been unlawfully killed and that fans behaviour had not contributed to the disaster in any way. Phil and his partner, Deena, have lived in Belfast since 2003. He has two grown-up sons from his first marriage.Presenter: Kirsty Young Producer: Cathy Drysdale.
Laura speaks to former CILIP president Jan Parry about her career which has included work in government, health and ministerial information services. She also talks about her groundbreaking work as the only Information Professional on the secretariat of the Hillsborough Independent Panel whose 2012 report revealed new evidence from over 450,000 documents reviewed by the panel. Jan's talk highlights the role information professionals can play in official investigations as keepers of documentary evidence and in providing vital access to evidence in the aftermath of investigations. She also talks about the importance of evaluating impact and advocacy for information services. Further information links: Hillsborough Independent Panel - report & disclosed material http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/ CILIP Impact toolkit http://www.cilip.org.uk/membership/benefits/virtual-learning-environment-vle/impact-toolkit
With cabinet papers relating to the 1984 miners' strike due to be published tomorrow, Jenny Chryss examines growing calls for a public inquiry into allegations of widespread falsification of evidence by the police against some of the miners who ended up facing charges. On June 18 1984, scores of pickets and police officers were injured during one of the bloodiest events of the year long strike. Protesters at Orgreave were trying to stop coke from the plant being transported to the British Steel mill at Scunthorpe. Ninety three people were arrested that day with some charged with riot, which carries a potential life sentence. However, nearly four months into the trial of fifteen of the accused pickets the case against them collapsed. Thirty years on, it's alleged that some police officers manipulated the evidence given in court and colluded over their statement writing or were told what to write. But no officer has ever been charged. And allegations about police malpractice spread beyond Orgreave. The programme hears from one former miner who says he was beaten almost unconscious during a picket at Frickley Colliery in West Yorkshire and then charged with a public order offence on the basis of falsified evidence. The case against him was later dropped. Campaigners and some MPs are now calling for a public inquiry and are drawing parallels between these allegations and similar revelations about the manipulation of evidence after the Hillsborough football disaster five years later. The Hillsborough Independent Panel revealed that more than a hundred and sixty South Yorkshire police statements had been altered after the disaster in which ninety six Liverpool fans died in April 1989. Producer: Sally Chesworth.
Raju Bhatt spoke about the development of police accountability in the UK in the past five decades, in a talk entitled "Policing the Police: Power, Scrutiny & Accountability?" on Wednesday 20 November 2013 at the Faculty of Law, as a guest on the regular CULS speaker programme, Founding partner of the leading human rights solicitors firm Bhatt Murphy, and winner of the 'Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year 2013' for outstanding achievement, Raju Bhatt is a leading human rights solicitor with special expertise in police law and deaths in custody cases. Mr Bhatt has been called upon to act in significant claims involving the Serious Organised Crime Agency, the Ministry of Defence and the Security Services. Raju Bhatt has sat on the Hillsborough Independent Panel and served on the Joint Committee on Human Rights scrutinising the draft Bill of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. This event was kindly Sponsored by Simmons & Simmons. For more information see the CULS website at: https://culs.org.uk
Christine Gifford discusses the work and challenges of the Hillsborough Independent Panel.