He sent threats that he would take the children and discredit her if she didn’t comply.. he offered her uncontested sole custody if she would live in Croatia, indicating that his motive is not to care for the children but control her (and them). This needs signing, immediately.

Laura-Jane died after giving birth to her 5th child - her death was ‘avoidable & contributed to by neglect’. She repeatedly asked staff to help her, saying she didn’t want to die. Her kids will grow up without a mum because of failings. #maternaldeath bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This is a problem I see with alarming regularity. Clever, successful, prominent women being controlled and abused behind closed doors, afraid their success will be used against them in court. Their experiences must be validated and abusers held accountable for their actions

Domestic abuse survivors warn that – inside the secretive family courts – they are being ‘retraumatised’ by the legal system, and say judges are the worst offenders. The horrifying misogyny vulnerable women face from judges. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

You can say that again. Keep saying it until it sinks in. Nate Postlethwait

Negligence in "family court" - failure to provide information. Someone told me this week that when a mother finds a new partner, he (or maybe she?) may present a risk to her children. I had a brief look into the stats which do indicate something called the "Cinderella effect" -

This headline, “Man expresses shame over taking a woman’s life,” centres the man’s feelings of humiliation and personal regret rather than empathy for the violence and destruction the victim suffered.

Fantastic to see SHERA member Dr Emma Katz, 'Lisa' and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner on Anna Collinson BBC News (UK) report re #coercivecontrol. Due to lack of training on CCB in social workers Lisa has not seen her child for years and Lisa has been subjected to yrs of trauma in #familycourt

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… 'of the 67 universities that responded, 25 (37%) admitted they did not carry out any specific training on coercive and controlling behaviour, even though nearly a decade has passed since it became a crime.'

30 July 2024: Olivia Wood, 29 was found dead at a property in Frome, Somerset. Keiron Goodwin, 32, has been charged with her murder.

So proud of myself for getting the conversation around coercive control started. Thank you to the professionals, researchers, those with lived experience & those watching a loved one experience this horrific crime, who have reached out to me. It's been a long time coming!

My abusive husband never directly dictated my decisions, but somehow, I always ended up doing exactly what he wanted. This is the subtle power of coercive control. ⚠️ During Covid lockdown, he decided he wanted to plan a summer holiday abroad. Despite travel being banned at the

We need current child arrangement cases halted, and recent cases re-opened and investigated. If social workers haven't been trained in coercive control/DA and 90% of these cases involve coercive control/domestic abuse, then the judgements and orders are clearly unsafe. It has

Does anybody know how I can collect your signatures? I'm not very tech savy 😆 ⬇️ Dear Ministry of Justice, Shabana Mahmood, COPY IN: Yvette Cooper, Sir Andrew McFarlane, Jackie Tiotto, Sarah McCarty, Albert Heaney, Gillian Baranski, Nigel Brown, Colum Conway We are writing

I represented a mother appealing a court order that made her child have unsupervised contact with a father who is a serial rapist. Cafcass deemed him safe. The mother called Cafcass a "harmful organisation" and accused the guardian of "protecting a rapist."

My The Bureau of Investigative Journalism report on how the family court gave a serial rapist unsupervised access to his child was published in partnership with The Observer | Kristoffer White has a conviction for raping a stranger and was also found to have raped the child's mother. 🧵tinyurl.com/y4su2cd3

Please sign and ask the Ministry of Justice to investigate current #DomesticAbuse #CoerciveControl cases, and I'd go as far back as to say since the harm report. Considering the professionals lack any adequate training and therefore shouldn't be working on these cases or making

🚨New paper 🚨 - *read with care* In our #csa & #familycourt peer-reviewed paper we report FC judges closing criminal investigations + worse. Our thanks to the brave mothers & co-authors Dr Donna Bramwell Prof Verma Manchester MPH & BSc Assoc Prof Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, SFHEA & (((ikeaddy))) manchester.ac.uk/about/news/fat…

False allegations of domestic violence are *very rare*. UK police data over 2018-2021 shows that false complaints make up 0.01% of all domestic abuse complaints to police. met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropo… 1/3

It was lovely to see Sarah go up to London and invited to Westminster. She really is a remarkable woman who does so much work and doesn't get anywhere near enough credit