
Janet Eastham
@JanetEastham
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Senior News Reporter @Telegraph. @BAFTA nominated & @RTS_media @editorsuk @pressawardsuk award-winning journalist. Highly commended @IRE_NICAR.
Joined November 2012
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The suspended doctor selling workers sick notes on demand ‘Rogue’ online service offers certificates for months off work with no medical tests or consultation, @Telegraph can reveal. w/@ChrisMid 🔗 https://t.co/emjdIyAWSC
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🇨🇳 Collapse of spy case throws spotlight on Labour’s attitude towards Beijing and the advisers shaping it Read more ⬇️ https://t.co/7LdELBZBvG
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🚨 Delighted to say that as of today I am Political Correspondent at The Telegraph! Onwards
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After Bethany Vincent and her son DJ, 9, were murdered by her ex-partner in 2021, their family discovered police had relied on a flawed Dash tool that classed him as posing just “standard” or “medium” risk. https://t.co/5FPPN6tOcv
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Controversial Dash risk assessment tool fails to recognise imminent threat to life
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🔴 EXC: Bereaved families may sue over a “flawed” domestic abuse tool. Law firm @mccuejury has been contacted by relatives of women killed after police used the DASH checklist, which failed to flag them as ‘high risk’. Free link 🔓⬇️ https://t.co/zHr2ZUbTb1
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🔴 EXC: Bereaved families may sue over a “flawed” domestic abuse tool. Law firm @mccuejury has been contacted by relatives of women killed after police used the DASH checklist, which failed to flag them as ‘high risk’. Free link 🔓⬇️ https://t.co/zHr2ZUbTb1
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So I'm pleased to see this article by @JanetEastham questioning links between so-called identification of women as being at high risk and intimate-partner femicide. It is long overdue that more people are aware of these concerns and that action is taken.
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🔴 NEW: Home Office warned in Feb that DASH domestic abuse checklist “as helpful as flipping a coin”. Yet it’s still used by more than half of police forces & most DV services to decide which victims get help. Full @Telegraph story w/ @tjsigsworth ⬇️ https://t.co/2d8wrYgZsb
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More than 50 women have been murdered after police relied on a “deeply flawed” screening tool that failed to identify them as high-risk, The Telegraph can reveal ⬇️ https://t.co/iayt75fvzo
telegraph.co.uk
‘Urgent’ review of Dash checklist demanded following deaths of more than 50 women not deemed high risk
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For years, police and the Home Office have known that the Dash domestic violence tool was failing victims. How many women have died as a result? How many more must die before action is taken? This is a national scandal that flies in the face of trumpeted campaigns to ‘halve
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: 55 women murdered after police used a “fatally flawed” abuse checklist that failed to flag them as high-risk. Experts warn the true toll from DASH could top 400 as @aliciakearns demands an “urgent” review. Full @Telegraph investigation 🔓⬇️ https://t.co/Ir87cEDzpd
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Just a little reminder that while writing "Mother of All the Behans" & long after its publication, my psychopathic father #BrianBehan was throwing my mother around the house. Shame on anyone who promotes this bullshit. #domesticviolence #domesticabuse @rte @womensaid @SAFEIreland
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Sharing freely my below @thetimes article from January detailing just a tiny fraction of the horror that my father #BrianBehan, author of #MotherOfAllTheBehans, inflicted upon MY mother for decades, while living in her mother's house. #DomesticViolence
https://t.co/C8bEHohLHd
thetimes.com
The 23-year-old’s tragic story struck Rosemary Behan as horribly familiar, after what she had witnessed as a child
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The Telegraph has reported on Patricia’s case, in which my clients call on @wesstreeting to intervene and find Patricia a bed in a specialist eating disorders unit. Thank you for covering the case, @JanetEastham.
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Earlier this year, I lost my beloved job at my beloved Observer when the Guardian, in its great wisdom, gave the newspaper away to a podcast company...who promptly sacked me. So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!! 1/
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Glad this post is backfiring for @GBNEWS People recognise humanity, this is a nice guy and people see that past political ideology
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@Independent My attempt to explain what it's been like to spent over 18-month in secret court hearings. thanks to @larisamlbrown @s_greenhill and @lewis_goodall who've been there since the very start https://t.co/XLgShhNcuG
independent.co.uk
Social affairs correspondent Holly Bancroft was one of a handful of journalists who knew about a catastrophic Ministry of Defence data leak – but an unprecedented legal order meant it could not be...
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UK govt to rein in use of “gagging clauses” to cover workplace harassment in changes championed by @ZeldaZeldaluna @cbmsilence
https://t.co/QfujMJPq1w ITN NDAs have been key focus of the campaign. Credit to all journos who spoke out about gagging in newsrooms inc @Channel4News
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@JanetEastham exposes misogynistic Muslim matchmaking platform. MWNUK CEO @ShaistaGohir comments - these fringe voices use a veneer of piety and scholarship, but their message is not aligned with the ethics and spirit of Islam. https://t.co/jMDKIf9Vs2
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This development will be particularly welcomed by @bectu members working across the creative sector where predators have been able to use the cover of NDA's to hide in plain sight UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Changes to workers’ rights bill will prohibit the silencing of staff who suffer harassment or discrimination
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Years of campaigning by people who risked everything to speak out and tonight potentially huge news for @ZeldaZeldaluna and @cbmsilence UK bosses will be banned from using NDAs to silence employees who’ve suffered harassment and discrimination https://t.co/19s9Iyasxh
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Changes to workers’ rights bill will prohibit the silencing of staff who suffer harassment or discrimination
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