A liaison officer helps a woman understand what’s happening to her case. Our proposed courtroom assessor helps the court understand what’s happening to her. Here’s the difference, and why it matters.
The Drive Project reports an 82% fall in abuse among participants, but that figure is measured during the programme, while a man is still being actively monitored, not after it ends. Here’s what the full evidence actually shows.
A charity is named directly inside an Act of Parliament, holding the same legal standing as a local authority to apply to a court to take your child.
Not “any authorised charity.” One, by name: the NSPCC, under Section 31(9) of the Children Act 1989.
No other charity has this. No business has this.
This isn’t about whether the NSPCC does good work, it clearly has. It’s about why one private organisation was given a permanent legal shortcut that no other equally capable body has ever been offered, and what happens if that ever changes.
A domestic abuse assessor sitting with a judge could change how the courts hear survivors. Here is why English and Welsh law already has the tools to make it happen.
If you’ve searched this, you don’t need convincing that something is wrong. You need to know what’s actually available to you, in practical terms, in England and Wales, right now. This is that information.
The number of civil legal aid providers in England and Wales fell from 2,129 in 2012 to 1,401 in 2021. Today, almost 40 per cent of the population lives in an area with no housing legal aid provider. The Law Society calls them legal aid deserts. They are gaps in the map where the rule…