
Jamie Roberton
Social Affairs Journalist at Channel 4
Journalist covering social affairs, @Channel4News | Email: [email protected] | Instagram: jamierobertonjourno
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3 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Jamie Roberton
By Jamie RobertonThe Department for Work and Pensions requires “deep-rooted culture change” to prevent more deaths of vulnerable benefit claimants, MPs have said. The Work and Pensions Select Committee said there was “self-evident failure of safeguarding in the system”, describing current processes for protecting the most in need as ”piecemeal” and “deficient”.
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1 month ago |
channel4.com | Jamie Roberton
By Jamie RobertonChild victims of domestic abuse are being failed and left in unsafe situations with nowhere to turn, the domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales has told Channel 4 News. In a significant intervention on children’s experiences of domestic abuse, Dame Nicole Jacobs labelled the landscape for the very youngest victims as “dire”, with thousands being turned away from support services because of funding shortages.
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1 month ago |
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By Jamie Roberton A UK police force has apologised and withdrawn a threat to prosecute a grieving mother unless she deletes a damning review of the investigation into her daughter’s death. Caroline Charters was warned that she faced possible criminal prosecution unless she destroyed all copies of the official review into Gloucestershire Constabulary’s actions following her daughter Danielle Charters-Christie’s sudden death in February 2021.
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1 month ago |
channel4.com | Jamie Roberton
By Jamie RobertonA grieving mother who believes her daughter died in suspicious circumstances is now being threatened with possible prosecution unless she deletes a highly critical official review into police actions, Channel 4 News can reveal. Danielle Charters-Christie was found dead inside the caravan that she shared with her partner – who had been accused of domestic abuse – in Gloucestershire on 26 February 2021.
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2 months ago |
channel4.com | Jamie Roberton
By Jamie RobertonA young mother took her own life after her abusive ex-partner bombarded her with messages urging her to kill herself – including while she was sectioned in a psychiatric hospital, Channel 4 News can reveal. Ashleigh Inskip, 25, was the victim of violence and coercive control for at least three years before she was found dead at her home in North Tyneside on 6 July 2021.
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