Chris meets with Coroner's Minister about avoidable SEND child suicide
20 Mar 2026
Possibly hundreds of SEND children are avoidably killing themselves and we don’t know how many because the government is not even recording the data.
This week I met with the Coroner’s Minister, Alex Davies-Jones MP and Dr Georgia Richards (Founder, Preventable Deaths Tracker). The Minister agreed to speak to the Chief Coroner about standardising coroner inquests and improving the treatment of bereaved families, as well as meet with us again soon to discuss potential legislative change to the coronial service.
The tragic deaths of special educational needs children failed by the state
My letter to the Minister: