Dealing with officials
From time to time everyone has to deal with officials, such as Benefits Agency staff, local council officers, doctors, teachers, employers, or staff from the investigation bodies, coroner’s court or police / prison service. It can be difficult dealing with officials. Their decisions can have a big impact on your life.
Planning to travel
There is every chance that you will need to travel to new places during this process. This may be for the inquest; it could be to meet lawyers, caseworkers or to attend an INQUEST Family Forum or other types of meetings.
Meetings
You may have experience of meetings through work, trade union membership, volunteer work, social activities or through any community or faith groups to which you belong. If you have no experience of formal meetings there are a number of aspects to meetings and it is worth looking at these so you know what to expect.
Speaking in public
Speaking in public is a valuable skill to develop. The skills are transferable to any type of situation where you need to speak to a group of people.