by familoo | 14 Feb 2016 | equality, rants
Women’s Aid recently published a report entitled “Nineteen Child Homicides – what must change so children are put first in child contact arrangements and the family courts”. In fact it was a few weeks ago, but I’ve been giving it a lot of thought,...
by familoo | 28 Sep 2020 | modernisation, public funding, rants, representation
PART 2 In Part 1 of this blog series, I talked about the broader context and scope of the review. Here I pick out some specific aspects of the report which held particular resonance or interest for me. Of course, this is selective – the report is huge. I can’t...
by familoo | 27 Dec 2016 | rants
In fact I don’t think these posts are completely obligatory – as demonstrated by the fact I’ve not done one before. But they are ten a penny. No, I’ve sort of compiled this Annual Review for my own purposes – so feel free to give it a...
by familoo | 18 Oct 2016 | equality, legal news, rants
Note : I’ve used “r*pe” throughout this post to stop it being flagged as rated 18. I’m not being oversensitive, but use of the full word without asterisk can cause things to be blocked. This blog post has been rumbling around inside me...
by familoo | 16 Oct 2016 | rants
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Domestic Violence published a Briefing Paper in April. Finally, I’ve had a chance to deal with it. You can read the report here. The report and evidence session appears to have had a heavy input from Womens’ Aid (in...