The Review Wants to Hear from You
The deadline for the Review’s active public engagement was 12th June 2023, but we welcome information at any time. If you have information to give the Review please contact rachael.geddes@covidreview.im
The Review would like to hear from a wide range of people about their experience of the Government’s handling of the Covid pandemic.
This will help the Chair to understand any problems, highlight successes and make recommendations for improvements. The more ideas the Review hears and the more people we hear from, the better our work will be.
Please click on the image below to view a message from the Chair about the different ways in which the public can contribute to the Review Team’s work.
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Invitation to Those Who Have Been Bereaved by Covid
In the Isle of Man many lives were lost as a result of the Covid pandemic and many other lives changed forever because of the untimely death of someone close. The Chair and members of the Review Team are acutely conscious of the loss and suffering which took place during the pandemic.
If you suffered a bereavement, the Chair of the Review, Kate Brunner KC, would like to make sure that you can speak to a member of the Review Team privately if you wish to do so, to share your experience. To do this, please email Rachael Geddes at rachael.geddes@covidreview.im, before 1st June 2023, with your name and contact details, letting her know the part of the Island in which you would prefer to meet.
During these meetings we would like to listen to your views. We will focus on learning from your experiences and listening to your suggestions on what could be done better in the future. Your responses will be treated as confidential and all contributions will be respected.
Help is available if you need it. Sharing your experience may trigger some difficult feelings and emotions. If you need help please access one of these organisations’ websites:
Make a Written Submission
You can make a Submission to the Review Team through a secure portal. Please start that process by reading the Guidance for doing so, using the button below.
The Review will invite certain people and groups to make written submissions, but anyone is welcome to.
You might know about a particular aspect of the Government’s handling of the Covid pandemic because of your work, research, or study. You may have relevant personal experience such as being unable to return home or receiving financial support. All of this knowledge is valuable to the Review.
If you would like to know how the information you provide to the Review will be used, please see the Privacy Notice.
We have set out some guidance about making written submissions to the team. The button below will take you to the guidance page and from there you will be able to access the secure portal.
Please contact us at rachael.geddes@covidreview.im if you have any problems accessing the secure form.
The deadline for submissions has passed but we welcome information at any time: please contact rachael.geddes@covidreview.im if you have information to share.
Written Submissions: Guidance
or: Download this Guidance as a printable Document
Postal Submissions
To submit hard copy documents by post, please send documents to:
Independent Covid Review, c/o DQ Advocates Ltd, The Chambers, 5 Mount Pleasant, Douglas, IM1 2PU. The deadline has passed but please contact DQ Advocates if you have information to share by post.
If you send your submission it will be scanned and uploaded to the Review’s system. Your submission will be held by DQ for seven days before being securely destroyed. If instead you want your submission to be returned to you after scanning, please contact DQ on 01624 626999 to arrange collection. Hard copies of the Review’s Privacy Notice are available on request from DQ.
Public Drop-in Meetings
Public Drop-In meetings were held in four locations across the island in March 2023.
If you were unable to attend a meeting but would like to share information please make a written submission using the link above.
If you would like the Review to hold further public meetings, please let us know.
We have set out some guidance to assist those who attended one of our drop-in meetings.
The button below will take you to the guidance page.
Public Meetings: Guidance
or: Download this Guidance as a printable Document
Focus Groups
The Chair would like to hear from groups of people particularly affected by the Government’s handling of the pandemic.
For example, the Review would like to meet a group of Steam Packet employees, a group of repatriated residents and a group of care workers. These groups are just examples.
If you consider yourself to be in a category of people who were particularly affected and would like to be part of a focus group, then please let us know through a written submission. If you are able to gather together a group of people, then one person can contact us on behalf of the group. Otherwise, you can contact us as an individual and indicate that you would like to be part of a focus group.
We have set out some guidance about making written submissions to the team. The button below will take you to the guidance page and from there you will be able to access the secure portal.
Please contact us at rachael.geddes@covidreview.im if you have any problems accessing the secure form.
The deadline for submissions has passed but we welcome information at any time: please contact rachael.geddes@covidreview.im if you have information to share.
Written Submissions: Guidance
or: Download this Guidance as a printable Document
Privacy
Please see our Privacy Notice for details about how we will use information which you give us.
For the sake of privacy and data security please do not submit information or documentation by email. Any hardcopy documents should be submitted to DQ Adocates following the process outlined above.