They Made the Lampard Inquiry Inaccessible — and That Matters

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The Lampard Inquiry is public and serious.

It exists because of widespread concern about deaths in mental health care.

And yet, for many people, it’s inaccessible.

Not because it’s too complex to understand, but because it isn’t written for them. Dense institutional language, legal framing, and clinical shorthand place the truth at a distance from those most affected by it.

That matters.

When harm is described only in abstract or professionalised terms, accountability softens. People become cases. Lived experience is pushed to the margins once again.

This isn’t a communication failure.

It’s a design choice.

Accessibility isn’t about simplifying truth.

It’s about allowing people to encounter it at all.

If an inquiry is examining harm but the people harmed can’t meaningfully access it, something is still wrong.

Truth shouldn’t require translation to be taken seriously.