The Inquiry is committed to ensuring emotional support for those involved in the Inquiry. Further information about the Inquiry’s support offer for witnesses and Core Participants will be provided in due course.
Organisations offering support
The wellbeing of people participating with the Inquiry is extremely important to the Chair and the Inquiry team. The Inquiry has contracted Hestia to provide emotional support to those engaging with us.
Taking part in the Inquiry may bring up complex feelings, memories, and pressures at different stages. Hestia’s trained counsellors offer a flexible, confidential, and impartial service to help you manage these challenges and feel supported throughout your involvement.
Support may include help to talk about your experiences, manage distressing emotions or memories, and develop coping strategies to support your wellbeing.
The service is delivered independently and is intended to support your engagement with the Inquiry. It can sit alongside, but does not replace, longer-term counselling, psychological support or mental health care.
Contact Hestia:
- Phone: 0800 246 5617
- Email: orgreaveinquiry.support@hestia.org
The Samaritans are a charity providing, free, confidential emotional support to anyone in distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide. The Samaritans contact number is 116 123 and is available 24/7 for support. You can call them for free from any phone.
Mind is a mental health charity in England and Wales, providing advice, support, and advocacy for anyone experiencing mental health problems. If you or someone you know is in crisis, you can get help now or call the support line on 0300 102 1234.
Safeguarding
The welfare and safety of those who engage with the Inquiry is important to the Chair and his 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 risk of serious harm to an adult;
- we identified a safeguarding risk to a child;
- we identified a risk relating to a crime; or
- we are ordered by a court of law or required by some other legal reason
In such cases, the Inquiry will 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 will inform you about the information being shared, who we are sharing it with and why, in accordance with our privacy notice.