July 2025 Newsletter

10 Jun

Your legal team have updates for you to read

I hope you are well. We have a couple more key updates we want to share with you from the campaign.

We have plans to host the first DES Justice Live Webinar, so read on to learn about details and to help pick out the best time for everyone to attend.

Thank you so much to everyone who has sent a letter to their MP to raise the matter with Parliament. We will continue to push this, so please share the link that’s further down this email.

DES Justice Webinar

We are planning to host a virtual Zoom webinar that will be open to attend for anyone in the DES Justice group. The point of the webinar is to give everyone a chance to come together in a private setting and will allow me to talk directly to you on campaigning, plans, updates, and answer any questions you might have.

I will also be looking into inviting a guest panellist that will be announced closer to the time.

For those who are interested, the button below will allow you to access a webform where you can choose a date that works best for you. The dates are:

22nd July
29th July
31st July
4th August

This will be an evening webinar and will likely take place between 6PM and 7PM.

Webinar Form

What is a Zoom Webinar?

For those who are new to this format, a Zoom webinar allows you to attend while remaining anonymous to everyone else in the webinar. This session will be different to the Zoom meetings that you may be more familiar with, in that you will only be able to see me and the guest panellist. You will not be shown, but you will still be able to communicate with us and your fellow attendees via the chat function.

NHS 10 Year plan

The NHS recently released their ‘Fit for the future: 10 Year Health Plan for England’. We’ve read through the contents, and the plan does state that the NHS intends to create ‘a broader commitment to early identification and intervention for individuals at high risk’.

The plan outlines the creation of a ‘Genomics Population Health Service’ and the implementation of universal newborn genomic testing and polygenic risk scoring. These tools aim to enable early identification and intervention for individuals at high risk of developing common diseases, which implicitly includes cancers.

It is one of the aims of this campaign that there should be specific screening available for those exposed to DES.

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) which advises the Government on screening programmes, has never been asked to consider the evidence for screening people exposed to DES in utero. We can use this commitment to ‘early identification and intervention for individuals at high risk’ to support our call for screening.

You can read the full paper using the button below.

Read the 10 Year Plan

DES Letter Campaign

We need to keep pushing to ensure that all our local MPs are aware of this scandal so it can be ultimately raised in Parliament. I have again included the link to a drafted letter for you to send to your MP. If you haven’t already, click the button below, fill in your details, and hit send.

Send Your Letter

Anyone can sign it, regardless of whether they have been affected by DES or not. The more people that sign, the more MPs will get letters, the more awareness we raise. We have already received some positive responses from some MPs, however we would like to see more.

As always, please share any responses from your MP with me at DESJustice@broudiejacksoncanter.co.uk.

Staying Connected

The Facebook group DES Daughters and Sons Support Group UK is live and active. You can join here or via the button below.

The group has been created by the incredibly brave Suzanne, who talked about her lifetime of destructive health problems as a result of her mother being prescribed DES for the recent ITV News documentary.

You can also watch this video message from Suzanne, who shares her hopes for the Facebook group and why she encourages you to join. This is a safe, private space for those affected by DES to chat privately and share experiences. To be clear, the group is not run by Broudie Jackson Canter. This is a separate safe space ran by Suzanne to help connect DES Daughters and Sons.

Join Group

You can get in touch with us at DESJustice@broudiejacksoncanter.co.uk.

Do take care, and as ever, drop me a line if you have any questions. Thank you for your continued support and engagement.

Best regards,

Clare (Partner)