The official channel for the inquiry is @covidinquiryuk which is worth following for details of where to watch hearings and know when transcripts and other documents are published.
The Northern Ireland bereaved families work closely with @CovidJusticeUK and I don't believe there's a seperate twitter account - their legal team is @paduffylaw
I don't believe the Scottish Covid Bereaved Families group who are a Core Participant have a twitter but their solicitor @AamerAnwar is another worth following
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The next couple of tweets are members of some of the above groups and apologies in advance to those I miss or don't even realise have personal accounts - and above all be kind and respectful to these amazing people.
There's then people who know far too much about far too important things - and I'll bow down go their expertise about who should be followed in the world of disaster planning @LucyGoBag@Johnrashton47 (would very much welcome recommendations on who to follow in this world)
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Other lived experience groups are either involved directly with the inquiry or who will be a keenly interested party - from those with long covid you should follow @LongCovidSOS@LongCovidKids@long_covid@LongCOVIDPhysio
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You should also follow @cv_cev and @ExcludedUnity who are lived experience groups of the clinically vulnerable and financially excluded respectively who will be watching the inquiry closely and commenting on it's proceedings at various points.
Turns out more of the @CovidJusticeUK legal team is on twitter with @NicolaBrook4 being worth a follow as she's just a font of knowledge in what's happening with the inquiry.
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Must have reading on the inquiry and its legal aspects comes from @law_and_policy whilst @instituteforgov have been doing some very interesting commentary on the inquiry and decision making/governance elements of the pandemic response.
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It's two years today since then Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the setting up of a statutory public inquiry under the 2005 act into Covid-19 and his governments handling of the crisis.
What's happened since then?
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It would be a further 217 days before Johnson would announce the chair into the inquiry, Barroness Hallett, on 15 December 2021 following pressure from @CovidJusticeUK and others.
Three months later on 13 March 2022 the draft terms of reference would be passed to the chair.
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The inquiry held consultation events across the UK on these draft terms of reference for the PM to sign off and at long last, on 28 June 2022, over a full year since Johnson announced the inquiry, there were signed off terms of reference.