Stuart Woodward

Chelmsford

Producer and Reporter, BBC Essex at BBC

Reporter / Producer for @bbcessex

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Lydia Bright says foster children being failed by state

2 days ago | bbc.co.uk | Stuart Woodward |Sonia Watson

Image source, Lydia BrightImage caption, Lydia Bright, who found fame on The Only Way Is Essex in 2010, grew up with foster siblingsReality TV personality Lydia Bright has called for more help for foster children when they leave care at 18 years old, saying they are being "failed" by the state. The Only Way Is Essex (Towie) star grew up alongside foster siblings, and her parents have continued to foster for more than 30 years.
Lydia Bright says foster children being failed by state

2 days ago | bbc.com | Stuart Woodward |Sonia Watson

Foster children failed by state, says Lydia BrightStuart Woodward & Sonia WatsonLydia BrightLydia Bright, who found fame on The Only Way Is Essex in 2010, grew up with foster siblingsReality TV personality Lydia Bright has called for more help for foster children when they leave care at 18 years old, saying they are being "failed" by the state. The Only Way Is Essex (Towie) star grew up alongside foster siblings, and her parents have continued to foster for more than 30 years.
Inquiry into Essex mental health deaths on 'troubling path'

2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Stuart Woodward

Mental health inquiry on troubling path - lawyerStuart WoodwardStuart Woodward/BBCThe next evidence sessions at the Lampard Inquiry will be held at Arundel House in London in JulyA lawyer representing more than 120 bereaved families at a mental health public inquiry has warned the hearing is in danger of heading "down a troubling path". The Lampard Inquiry is looking into the deaths of more than 2,000 people under mental health services in Essex between 2000 and 2023.
Inquiry hears Essex mental health trusts 'try to stop' coroner reports

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Stuart Woodward

NHS trusts "try to stop" coroners issuing Prevention of Future Death reports, an inquiry hears.
Cost an obstacle to a healthy nursery lunch

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Stuart Woodward

Cost an obstacle to a healthy nursery lunch - studyStuart WoodwardGetty ImagesMore than a fifth of children in Essex aged four to five years old are obese or overweightRising prices and children's reluctance to try new foods are two of the biggest obstacles to providing healthy meals to under-5s, according to a new report. 'Nourishing Our Future' is the first-ever study examining food and nutrition in pre-schools in Essex - a county where 21% of reception-age children are obese or overweight.
Essex mental health inquiry chairwoman 'dissatisfied' with trust

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Stuart Woodward

Inquiry 'extremely dissatisfied' with health trustStuart WoodwardReporting fromLampard InquiryPA MediaBaroness Lampard said she would "not hesitate" to use her statutory powers to compel evidence if requiredThe chairwoman of the public inquiry into more than 2,000 mental health deaths in Essex said she was "extremely dissatisfied" with a health trust's late submission of evidence.
Inquiry hears Essex mental health trusts 'try to stop' coroner reports

3 weeks ago | bbc.co.uk | Stuart Woodward

Image source, Jamie Niblock/BBCImage caption, Deborah Coles said the behaviour of some NHS trusts at inquests was "reprehensible"Health trusts have repeatedly tried to prevent coroners from issuing Prevention of Future Death reports in order to protect their reputations, an inquiry has heard. Deborah Coles, director of the charity Inquest, told the BBC the "reprehensible" behaviour was a pattern "played out across the country" but was "exemplified" in Essex.
Southend man says heart screening at 16 'gave me bonus years'

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Stuart Woodward

Heart screening at 16 'gave me bonus years'Stuart WoodwardJamie Niblock/BBCHarry Jenkins (centre), pictured with his parents, said he was "so, so lucky" to have his heart condition picked up at a screeningHarry thought it was normal to hear his heartbeat permanently racing in his ears - it was all he had known since he was a child.
Lampard Inquiry told people still dying avoidable deaths in Essex

3 weeks ago | bbc.co.uk | Lewis Adams |Stuart Woodward

Image source, PA MediaImage caption, The Lampard Inquiry heard lessons were not being learned about deaths at NHS trustsRepeated failures in mental health care have seen "avoidable deaths" continue in places people should be safe, an inquiry has heard. The Lampard Inquiry is analysing the deaths of more than 2,000 patients under NHS care in Essex between 2000 and 2023.
'We were short-staffed', NHS boss says

4 weeks ago | bbc.com | Stuart Woodward

'We were short-staffed', NHS boss tells inquestStuart WoodwardFamily handoutElise, who was from Southminster near Maldon, was found unresponsive in her room on 17 April 2021A clinical director criticised staff shortages and NHS budgets at an inquest into the death of a teenager at a mental health unit. Elise Sebastian was 16 years old when she was found unresponsive in her bedroom at the St Aubyn Centre, Colchester, in April 2021.