🚨New research by my office shows that domestic abuse is everyday business for the Family Court – but the system is still failing adult and child victims.🧵

Cost should never be a barrier to safety. It’s welcome news that victims of domestic abuse will now be able to remove their details from the Insolvency Register for free with the abolition of Person at Risk of Violence Order fees. https://t.co/9ajfFfarAO

I’m proud to support @SEAresource’s good practice guide for financial services. This excellent guide offers a roadmap to help the industry make good practice on economic abuse consistent. Read here:

The government’s current recall proposals create significant risks to the safety of DA victims, by giving perps the confidence to breach conditions with impunity. Thank you to @Jess4Lowestoft for raising this important issue during the Sentencing Bill debate earlier this week.

🙌🏽HISTORIC CAMPAIGN WIN🙌🏽 👩🏻‍⚖️ After a decade-long campaign, today the government has decided to repeal the legal presumption of parental contact. Here's what that means ➡️

I'm extremely pleased to see the government announce that it is going to repeal the presumption of parental involvement. This is a huge victory for @clairethrossell and others have fought tirelessly to ensure children lives aren't put at risk due to unsafe contact orders.

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My recent report on the Family Court highlights just how hard a system it is to navigate as a survivor of domestic abuse. Here are some of the things survivors told my office about their experience👇

A new report from @VictimsComm has found staggeringly low confidence in the criminal justice system, particularly for victims of domestic abuse. All parts of the system need urgent reform to rebuild victims' trust and deliver the justice they deserve. https://t.co/lRYKAsdVCj

A new landmark report that looks closely at the inner workings of the UK  family court system found 87% of the nearly 300 case files analysed featured evidence of domestic abuse.

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NEW: Nine out of 10 private law cases feature domestic abuse according to new research from @CommissionerDA. In more than half of those unsafe contact orders are being made with judges sending children to overnight stays with a potentially abusive parent. https://t.co/FkbEnt28xb

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To ensure survivors are heard and protected I’m calling for: ✅ A fully funded national roll out of Pathfinder Courts ✅ Removal of the presumption of parental contact ✅ Proper resourcing so the courts can respond to domestic abuse

👉In over half of the cases reviewed, unsupervised overnight contact was ordered. 👉Survivors were told that raising allegations of abuse wouldn’t affect contact decisions. 👉Victims forced to represent themselves struggled to put together a case and provide the right evidence.

Domestic abuse was identified in nearly 90% of case files we reviewed. Yet a pro-contact culture and abuse being dismissed, minimised or seen as historic is leading to decisions that may jeopardise children’s safety.

Domestic abuse perps should be excluded from early release measures, but too many slip through the net damaging victims' safety and confidence. Govt measures in the Sentencing Bill to flag domestic abuse at sentencing is an important step towards addressing this issue.

The failure of policing to take VAWG seriously within its own ranks only allows the horrific views and behaviours displayed in last night's programme to thrive. Enough is enough. Perps must be rooted out and dealt with swiftly.