I am taking legal action after serious safeguarding failures left me harmed during a vulnerable period following bereavement. These failures put me at risk and exposed gaps in the systems meant to protect vulnerable people. This case seeks to hold a perpetrator to account, uncover how public services failed, and protect other women from experiencing the same harm. Your support will fund urgent specialist legal advice and early investigation to pursue justice and prevent further failures.

I was left unprotected during a vulnerable period following bereavement — safeguarding systems that should have kept me safe failed catastrophically. Repeated warnings were ignored, delayed, or mishandled, leaving me exposed to serious harm. This legal action is about justice for what happened to me — and preventing the same failures from putting other women at risk.

Background

People bereaved by suicide face increased vulnerability and risk. Safeguarding systems are expected to respond with care, urgency, and protection. In my case, that did not happen. I raised concerns with multiple public authorities in the UK and abroad. These concerns involved vulnerable individuals and raised complex questions about cross-agency and cross-jurisdictional responsibility. Despite repeated attempts to obtain protection and accountability, fundamental questions remain unanswered:

• Who was responsible for safeguarding me?

• Why were warning signs missed or ignored?

• Why were concerns not acted on promptly?

• What oversight existed — and why did it fail?

Purpose of This Legal Action

This legal action seeks to bring a perpetrator to justice and to investigate serious safeguarding failures that occurred while I was highly vulnerable following bereavement. Safeguarding systems failed at multiple points, and concerns raised at the time were not acted on appropriately. This action is necessary to:

• establish legal responsibility for safeguarding failures

• assess whether criminal, civil, or regulatory breaches occurred

• prevent the same failures from placing other women at risk

Without accountability, the risks that enabled this harm remain unaddressed.

Why Legal Action Is Necessary

Informal complaints and internal processes have not provided clarity, accountability, or protection. Independent legal scrutiny is needed to:

• investigate safeguarding failures and professional conduct

• clarify responsibility across agencies and jurisdictions

• assess whether the law was breached

• compel learning and systemic change where failures occurred

This legal action does not prejudge the outcome of any proceedings. It seeks lawful investigation, accountability, and prevention.

What This Fund Will Do

I am raising £5,000 to fund urgent specialist legal advice and investigatory work. This will include:

• independent legal review of safeguarding failures

• assessment of liability and lawful remedies

• early investigatory steps toward accountability and prevention

This is the essential first stage in pursuing justice and ensuring that other vulnerable women are not exposed to the same risks.

Why Your Support Matters

Safeguarding only works when failures are exposed and addressed. By supporting this case, you are helping to:

• pursue accountability for serious safeguarding failures

• challenge systems that failed a vulnerable, bereaved woman

• protect other women from being harmed in the same way

Your support helps ensure that safeguarding systems are held to the standards they are meant to uphold.

All matters raised are subject to independent legal assessment.