2023 EXPOSING BRITAIN’S SOCIAL EVILS prize finalist

Sanchia Berg and Katie Inman

Revealing the closed world of family courts, BBC News

Sanchia Berg and Katie Inman are reporters at BBC News specialising in Social Affairs. Their investigation Revealing the closed world of family courts described what happens in care cases in the family court, through four individual stories told in detail, using verbatim notes, interviews with families, and court documents. This pioneering work revealed how the acute shortage of resources in health and social care has a direct and permanent impact on families and shed light on the hidden plight of Roma children.

Their shortlisted pieces are: