Child First Archives - Women’s Aid

Claire Throssell and the Child First campaign

Membership Required

This page is for Women's Aid Members or National Training and Education Centre learners only.

Please login to view the pages by clicking on the link below and entering your email and password. You will have received these in advance via email.

If you have any problems logging in please contact our Membership team: membership@womensaid.org.uk. You can also find out more about our Training and Education Centre courses and about becoming a Member by clicking on the links below.

Courses

Become a Member

Already a member? Log in here

Claire Throssell and the Child First campaign Read More »

Family courts remain an unsafe and traumatic place for women and children

Women's Aid Responses / Alicia Brooks

Family courts remain an unsafe and traumatic place for women and children Read our report: Two years, too long: Mapping action on the Harm Panel’s findings Progress in family courts for domestic abuse survivors has stalled. Wednesday 29th June 2022   Two years after a government report into the family courts, Women’s Aid has

Family courts remain an unsafe and traumatic place for women and children Read More »

The Harm Report two years on – too little too late

Blog / Jess Milton

The Harm Report two years on – too little too late In 2016, when the Child First campaign was launched with the Nineteen Child Homicides report, my two precious sons Jack and Paul were included in the report’s tally of 19 children and two women who had been murdered by a perpetrator of domestic abuse

The Harm Report two years on – too little too late Read More »

Parental alienation and the family courts

Guest Safe Blog, Safe / Jess Milton

Parental alienation and the family courts Dr Adrienne Barnett writes our first guest post for Safe, our new online research blog. She explores how claims of parental alienation in the family courts are being used as means to silence victims of domestic abuse. Published: 28th April 2020 Dr Adrienne Barnett is a Senior Lecturer in

Parental alienation and the family courts Read More »

Landmark win for Women’s Aid’s Child First campaign

Women's Aid Responses / Jess Milton

Landmark win for Women’s Aid’s Child First campaign with changes announced to make child contact safer Friday 15th September 2017 Following Women’s Aid’s Child First campaign, changes to the guidance given to judges in child contact cases when there is an allegation of domestic abuse, have been announced by Sir James Munby, President of the

Landmark win for Women’s Aid’s Child First campaign Read More »