The Coach for Survivors

25/10/2025

Another outspoken MP addressing parental responsibility away when a child is born of r**e.

23/10/2025

When a child has seen and abuserin thefamily home. How can that not play a part in Family Court?

02/12/2024

I get calls from anxious mothers all the time.
What do you do when your loved one is at risk from domestic abuse?
Domestic abuse is not just difficult for victim survivors, it's also stressful and worrying fir a loved one.
If you are holding information your daughter has asked you not to share this cam cause real anxiety, stress and panic. If you have to engage with your daughter's abuser without letting on that you know he is a risk to your daughter or grandchildren, you must find ways to decompress or seek counselling to help you maintain focus.
When she is ready to leave and take action to ensure her safety, you are the one she will lean on.
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19/11/2024

Are you in your physical courage?
Physical courage is when you keep going with resilience, balance and awareness.

10/11/2024

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Feeling unheard or stuck after an abusive relationship? Scared of unwanted contact? Then the most empowering thing you can do is have a conversation

28/10/2024

Emotional abuse is not just cursing, yelling or constant criticism. It can be, or include ignoring you, giving you the silent treatment.
Not allowing you to sleep. Waking you up just to question you for hours over something insignificant.
If you have been experiencing this behaviour for moths or years it will change you. You will become a shell of who you used to be.

Reach out for help.Talk to a friend or family member you can trust.
If you're isolated, or your movements restricted then book an appointment with your GP to make sure the abuse and the impact of the abuse is logged by an authority.
You will start to heal the moment you feel heard.


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21/10/2024

Millions of women are subject to femicide....

1657 likes, 123 comments. “Last year alone, over 1 million crimes against women and girls were recorded in England and Wales… Misogyny is a type of extremism, we need to start treating it like one.”

21/10/2024

(Children ans Family Court Advisory and Support Service). This national organisation established April 1st 2001
was to centralise the existing services dealing with family law issues. Its role is to ensure children's voices and welfare are represented in Family Court proceedings.

However over the years CAFCASS has become a dirty word for many victim survivors and their children. The reason being allegations of biased, judgemental reports which has left vulnerable children engaging with a violent and or abusive parent. Many reports written by Cafcass assorted has resulted in Family Courts making ridiculous judgements leaving the primary carer and vulnerable children at risk.

This is why their new Domestic Abuse Practice Policy is a welcomed response to many who have suffered due to mis-informed interpretations of abuse, sexual assault, to dismiss or minimise the impact of violence and coercive and controlling abuse in the family home.

Some of the transformative points include:
👉 Practitioners must not reinterpret or reword the experience of domestic abuse victims. They must use the person's own words and include the impact on them in all recordings and reports to the Courts
👉 Practitioners must not describe someone as anxious or suffering from mental ill-health unless clinically diagnosed without considering that the victim may be presenting feelings of anxiety, trauma or fear.
👉 Practitioners must never recommend parental supervision of 'spending time with' arrangements when the proposed supervising parent has disclosed domestic abuse by the other parent.

This is just some of the changes in this new policy and it means all assessments produced by Cafcass from the 26th September onwards should comply with the new policies and xan be challenged if they do not.
In relation to to reports that pre-date the policy, it is still possible to challenge those reports on the basis of this policy either through contested hearing or by asking the court to require an addendum report from Cafcass that does comply with the new policy
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Today Cafcass has published a new Domestic Abuse Practice Policy. The policy sets out the practice requirements that Cafcass Family Court Advisers (FCAs) and Children’s Guardians must follow in protecting child and adult victims of domestic abuse when they advise the courts about the welfare of th...