In Response to Baroness Hallett’s Covid Inquiry Report Date: 20 Nov 2025 BritBanglaCovid welcomes the publication of Baroness Hallett’s Covid Inquiry report and recognises the scale and seriousness of its findings. The report confirms what our community experienced first-hand: that the UK entered the pandemic unprepared, that systemic failures cost lives, and that inequality played a decisive role in who suffered most. For the British Bangladeshi community, COVID-19 was not only a public-health crisis but a social and economic crisis that exposed longstanding structural disadvantages. We lost elders, parents, key workers, and community leaders. Families were confronted with overcrowded housing, precarious employment, language barriers, and limited access to accurate health information. Our project was created precisely because these experiences were neither being heard nor documented. The Hallett report validates the urgency of our work. Its findings on strategic failu...
23/09/2025 Dear Publisher ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We wish to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of all copies sent of your publications, as listed below to the Agency for Legal Deposit Libraries. Once processed, a copy of each title will be sent to the following libraries, The Bodleian Library Oxford University, the Cambridge University Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales and Trinity College Dublin for Legal Deposit. ACQ.5171428,1 ALDL use ISBN Title 1.4586785 9781399988834 (pbk.) : Covid Crisis :The Brit-Bangla Response /