Claire Waxman Victims’ Commissioner London on Times Radio talking about unregulated experts, parental alienation and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism's reporting over the weekend. She is calling for all cases where children have been taken from their parents following the advice of an unregulated expert to be reviewed.

A psychiatric label can erase your credibility overnight. Not because you changed, but because someone in a white coat said you did. In courtrooms, custody battles, and workplaces, a diagnosis isn't always support, but can be a weapon. Once it's on paper, it follows you

A reminder of Dr Dewi Evans central role in the distressing story of Bonnie Lewis who was taken from her mother who was desperate to get a diagnosis for her child who was in constant pain. Evans was a key figure in the destruction of this loving family. youtu.be/xkcVIyGwhGM?si…

87% of family court cases in E and W contain reports of domestic abuse Nat cen found only 2/245 cases resulted in no contact orders (less than 1% of cases) Either the courts think all these victims are lying or they are knowingly forcing children into contact with abusers.

Blind trust is just as toxic as blind mistrust. Both have the same root cause - a refusal to think critically and to hold space for uncertainty. When someone tells a story, there is room to listen with compassion AS WELL AS to critically examine the evidence. Listening with

NHS England Deputy Director agrees that Lucy Letby’s case, should never have gone to trial. #LucyLetby is innocent, she was scapegoated by two incompetent cowardly Consultants, Dr Stephen Brearey & Dr Ravi Jayaram.

Narcissists seem to intuitively grasp that prolonged stress wears down a person’s health, clarity, and resilience. They’ll engineer situations that keep you in a constant state of tension — endless small disruptions, subtle invalidations, shifting expectations, manufactured

Every day, people are shocked by what happens inside the family courts. This is a true story — one of many. A mother received her first barring order in 2022 — not because she posed any risk, but because Cafcass said the father “needed a break” from proceedings. The reason given

Lucy ‘patsy’ Letby … the trial to cover-up for the state. Dr Steve Watts was once Assistant Chief Constable of Hampshire. He designed the national police procedure policy for investigating deaths in hospitals. “I followed the Letby trial daily and remember thinking, “When

"Suicides linked to domestic abuse should be investigated as potential homicides, say UK families" Landmark meeting in Westminster heard from string of relatives who say laws are not being used to pursue prosecutions 📰: bit.ly/47LTGnP

When you’re a victim of abuse, anger becomes something you’re taught to hide. You’re expected to stay calm. Be polite. Be the bigger person. Even when you’ve been failed, gaslit, ignored and blamed. But anger is a normal response to trauma. It’s what happens when injustice

It is five years since Lucy Letby was arrested for the third time and put in prison for almost two years before coming to trial. Imagine that. So much now suggests that her conviction was unsafe. I can only urge those who pray to pray for justice.

It beggars belief the torture this young lady has been - and is still going through - it must be a living hell #LucyLetby

All it takes for a miscarriage of justice to happen is for the prosecution to present misinformation as fact, and for an incompetent or ineffective defence team to fail to adequately challenge it. That combination alone can put an innocent person in prison - while the CCRC

It’s shocking that men found to have raped and abused mothers in family courts face no DBS check and no criminal record. In one of my cases, a rapist continued working as a mental healthcare practitioner-unregulated, with no meaningful oversight.

Sara Sharif review exposes family court failures. Social workers said the guardian’s views “took precedence”. A Section 7 report was written by an inexperienced worker who failed to incl that Sara’s father had a history of domestic abuse. Catastrophic. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A safeguarding review into Sara Sharif's death makes utterly devastating reading. This was a case where "a great deal of information especially about the risks posed by father" was available yet "no-one joined up the dots". tinyurl.com/epkycsme

There were failures by multiple agencies to protect Sara & the review found there was a notable lack of consideration given to her race and culture. Good summary here from Chris Barnes for transparency project tinyurl.com/y3889dmd