Dr Siobhan O'Dwyer: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Associate Professor of Social Care at the University of Birmingham
- Quoted on
- Palliative & end of life care, Adult social care & reform
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“'I think it would. We're not going to prevent all homicides perpetrated by families but there's a subset that we would prevent if the legislation were in place.'”
What Dr Siobhan O'Dwyer has said
“Health and social care services in England are failing disabled children and their parents are being left to pick up the pieces. In his speech, the prime minister acknowledged that without support unpaid carers can break. But what does it mean to break? For Matilda it meant death by suicide, it meant dying alone and in pain because services failed to fully appreciate the impact of the caring role and the troubled marriage, and it meant leaving behind the children she loved more than anything else in the world. That is a break that can never be healed, but it was entirely preventable.”
one of Britain's leading experts on family carers · Adult social care & reform · 27 Aug 2026 · Matilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the system ↗
Where Dr Siobhan O'Dwyer has been quoted
- Assisted dying option ‘great comfort’ to terminally ill – palliative care experthumanists.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Matilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the systemtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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