source: Red Alert HELP!
published: 10 October 2015

Red Alert HELP! provides an interactive online advice portal available 24/7 x 365 to help you find the information, services or support that you need. Primarily featuring services in the West Midlands, there is also information on national services, campaigns and support initiatives.

The portal consists of a type-recognition system that will find key words as visitors type into the search box, and then present answers or solutions to the query. Visitors can also submit tickets (queries / requests).

The portal will be continuously updated in close consultation with third parties which include collaborators or partners within the voluntary, statutory and social enterprise sectors.

When this facility goes fully live (in 2016 we hope) it will also have a user forum to encourage discussion and support with the Red Alert HELP! team and between other forum users.

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source: The Guardian 
published: 24 July 2014

Information on 18 justice campaigns for murder victims and those who died following police contact was held by a secret Scotland Yard unit, a report has found.

The Derbyshire chief constable, Mick Creedon, said the campaigns dated between 1970 and 2005 and officers were in the process of telling the families concerned.

In his latest report on the conduct of undercover officers from Scotland Yard’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), Operation Herne, he said: “Operation Herne has identified emerging evidence that in addition to the Stephen Lawrence campaign, a number of other justice campaigns have been mentioned within SDS records. Seventeen such justice campaigns have been identified so far.

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