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SHERA Research Group International Collective researchers MVAWC
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SHERA Research Group International Collective researchers MVAWC @sheraresearch.bsky.social · Nov 23
Some of our work here: Did you know convicted child sex offenders currently maintain parental responsibility of their children? Essentially - this means these offenders can seek contact with their children via #familycourts. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Nine dads accused of child sex abuse given legal access to their victims
The new study, led by the University of Manchester, has called for an urgent inquiry and emergency measures against family courts in the UK following the findings
www.mirror.co.uk
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What every parent and child owes to
@clairethrossellmbe
, words cannot express🙏. “I made him one last promise. I said to him: ‘No more children are going to die like you.’”

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘No more children are going to die like you’: how Sheffield mother kept her promise to boys killed by father 11 years ago
Claire Throssell has been central to the campaign to repeal parental contact laws following the deaths of her two sons at the hands of their father in 2014
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
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@sisterssalon.bsky.social for this collation of #familycourt updates & campaigns - several led by SHERA & PEEPSA's
@sarahtaylor82.bsky.social. We are also calling for a review into all cases where 'parental alienation' has been used to remove a child brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-eight...
Family Courts
ACTION ONE: ASSUMED PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY BREAKING GOVERNMENT REFORM: Sex offenders to be denied parental responsibility The government announced plans to repeal the presumption of parental invol…
brightonsisters.wordpress.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
Check out @officialuom #blackhistorymonth events here: www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display...
Black History Month 2025 | StaffNet | The University of Manchester
www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
We have had some huge achievements over the last few weeks, but there is much more to do - we will continue our efforts until we dismantle gender inequality drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com/p/wrongful-g...
Wrongful Gender Stereotypes in Family Courts: Discriminatory Legal Barriers to Women’s Access to Justice
Where we are and where we need to be...
drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
Justice Committee to examine reform of the Family Court.

They will question the President of the Family Division and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner during an evidence session in Parliament on Tuesday, October 28 examining reform of the Family Court. committees.parliament.uk/event/25375
October 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
Globally, an estimated 736 million women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner, a non-partner sexual violence, or both at least once in their lifetime.
October 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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jessasatomp.bsky.social
I am over the moon that this Labour Government has agreed to bring an end to presumption of contact in the family courts.
October 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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jessasatomp.bsky.social
Huge thanks to the Prime Minister, @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social, @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social, Sarah Sackman, @womensaid.bsky.social, @sheraresearch.bsky.social, @drproudman.bsky.social, and my colleagues @marietidball.bsky.social, Natalie Fleet, and so many more.
October 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Women allegedly abused by Andrew Tate decry ‘misleading’ Spectator article
Women allegedly abused by Andrew Tate decry ‘misleading’ Spectator article
Complaint sent to Ipso over interview with ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother in Michael Gove-edited magazine Four alleged survivors of sexual abuse by Andrew Tate have complained to the press regulator about an interview with the self-proclaimed misogynist influencer and his brother in the Spectator magazine. The women, who have filed a high court claim accusing Tate of rape, coercive control and assault and battery, claim that the article, written by deputy editor, Freddy Gray, is inaccurate and misleading. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
This post explores ‘Freedom Day’- the day children can no longer be forced into contact with an abusive parent, nor subjected to interference from courts. It marks the end of a long, traumatic process, & the beginning of another: the aftermath... drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com/p/freedom-da...
'Freedom Day': When the Family Court Lets Go, but the Damage Remains
The day they say women and child victim-survivors are 'free' from Family Court proceedings, but they've already lost too much.
drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
This post discusses reproductive coercion of #mothers/#women in the family courts and the linked outcomes for #children. It attends to the clear contradictions between health policies that promote mother-child bonds & legal policies that suppress this drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com/p/the-family...
“The [Family] Court Took My Baby": Reproductive Coercion/Abuse in the Name of Fathers' Rights.
'Neutral' Law, Coercive Outcomes: How Family Courts Police Reproduction
drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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General registration open details 👇 @veronicasvard.bsky.social @killedbyproxy.bsky.social @smhall.bsky.social @lovedayh.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @sheraresearch.bsky.social @lindaconnolly.bsky.social @proftinamiller.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social
lexnetwork.bsky.social LEX Network @lexnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 3
📣General registration for4th joint annual conference 'A feminist Politics of Radical Hope in a Time of Oppression'
is now open.
Details: www.lexnetwork.org/radical-hope...

LEX now reviewing membership applications
Details: lexnetwork.org
@sharronfitz.bsky.social @genderandjustice.bsky.social
Radical-hope-conference – LEX Research Network
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September 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
Save the date! October 7th 2025:

#Familycourt #HealthJustice #Global #postseparationabuse

Join us for a free online ground-breaking Health Justice Conference focussing on global insights into the family courts and health/human rights impacts for victim survivor women and children
August 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
We need to talk about the invisible labour of #familycourt. From the court preparation to the managing trauma, just how much of the #familylaw system and broader society is upheld by the invisible labour of women and children? drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com/p/the-invisi...
The Invisible Labour of Family Court: Surviving The System That Was Meant To Help
The silent burden and drudgery of navigating family court alone, while holding everything else together
drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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clerotto.bsky.social
Little Red Riding Hood's bedtime reading
Enough to make you scream
Well done Nic & Liz @sheraresearch.bsky.social for making waves
No Samba but a dance in Durham Hills for the ink blot witch makers & expert fakers
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

Everybody Scream
youtu.be/03iBgkXb1EE?...
August 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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claremcglynn.bsky.social
"This is not misogyny by accident, it is by design"
My comment on the latest example of AI tech being released without a care about its adverse uses and impacts, particularly on women and girls.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pornographic Taylor Swift deepfakes generated by Musk's Grok AI
Grok Imagine's
www.bbc.co.uk
August 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
We must take urgent steps to address the ongoing and ever-present harm our #familycourts are causing. Our justice systems should protect victim-survivors and not be a tool for further #postseparationabuse of women and children drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com/p/whats-love...
https://drelizabethdalgarno.substack.com/p/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it-post
August 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
Thank you Jessica Bradley for this important piece on #familycourt with quotes from two of our core members Dr Dalgarno and Dr Barnett
and @drproudman.bsky.social. Rosie said ‘this isn’t parental alienation – we’ve been abused’. Re Dr Maria Downs www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/the-harmful-...
The ‘harmful pseudo-science’ infecting Sheffield’s family courts
Dr Maria Downs and the extraordinary growth of ‘parental alienation’
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
August 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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juliedoughty.bsky.social
see transparencyproject.org.uk/can-secret-r...
Can secret recordings be used as evidence in court?
If you record a meeting or conversation about your children, without people being aware you’re recording them, can you then produce and rely on that recording
transparencyproject.org.uk
June 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
What is your take on this? Still digesting but something striking is the fact that a professional being in a litigant's home turns the litigant's home into a 'professional setting'. Is anyone else struck by this? In what other role does this occur? www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and...
Family Justice Council Guidance on Covert Recordings in Family Law proceedings concerning children - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
The President of the Family Division has issued this guidance for professionals and litigants who represent themselves
www.judiciary.uk
June 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
Thank you UN Special Rapporteur #VAWG Reem Alsalem #familycourt

Again the Special Rapporteur recommends #parentalalienation frameworks be prohibited from use in FC, calls for abuse and trauma informed regulated experts in #familycourt & an end to the #presumptionofinvolvement for abusive parents
2. Beyond legal barriers, family courts have been criticized for prioritizing parental contact and involvement over the safety of children, sometimes granting access to fathers despite serious allegations and even findings of abuse. Courts repeatedly disregarded domestic violence evidence, instead framing protective mothers as engaging in "parental alienation" With mothers being advised not to raise allegations of domestic violence or child sexual abuse in case they are accused of “parental alienation.” Mothers are also threatened with the removal of their children if they seek to protect their children by limiting contact with abusive fathers. In many cases, children’s voices are not heard or listened to. Such cases expose deep flaws in the system, where the presumption of parental involvement can override safeguarding concerns - links to our paper in bio open access 81. Mothers who have lost the care of their children as a result of custody cases are struggling to come to terms with the loss. They face systematic challenges in accessing justice, exacerbated by legal aid cuts, court biases, and a failure to prioritize child safety in cases involving domestic abuse. The 2013 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act removed legal aid from most private family law cases, forcing many parents, especially mothers, to represent themselves. By 2024 over half of mothers in custody disputes appeared in court without a lawyer[1], and by 2017, 21,852 parents applied for private law child arrangement cases without legal representation—a 134% increase from 2011[2]. This lack of legal support disproportionately affects lower-income mothers. The result is often prolonged cases, psychological distress, denial of justice and a growing family court backlog, which stood at over100,000 children as of 2013[3]. The lack of justice has forced many mothers to escape the UK to jurisdictions not covered by the Hague Convention on Child Abductions. 44. The UK government’s Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy emphasizes prevention, previously allocating £6.6 million over three years (2022-2025) to this end. However, a significant challenge persists including: Framing violence against women and girls predominantly as a criminal justice issue, focusing on punishing offenders rather than investing adequately in the systemic and societal changes required to address root causes. Prevention efforts remain underfunded, while the implementation of protective measures, victim compensation, and rehabilitation is weak. This punitive approach, coupled with poor enforcement of court judgments and protection orders fosters a sense of impunity for perpetrators, undermining progress. 45. Specialist services for girls and young women under 25, who face disproportionate rates of domestic abuse, are critical yet insufficient. Statutory agencies are positioned to identify and intervene early, but without robust investment, many women at risk are left without support, leading to trauma, school exclusion, or entanglement in the criminal justice system. Efforts to shift harmful social norms, particularly among boys and men, such as Scotland’s Equally Safe strategy, which aims to ensure that young people develop mutually respectful, responsible and confident relationships[1] are to be commended. However, the £6.6 million investment in such policies pales against the scale of need (3.5 million boys) and the scale of sexual and gender-based violence. [35 NSPCC, Child sexual abuse: statistics briefing. [36] Adrienne Barnett, Domestic abuse and private law cases: A literature Review, Ministry of Justice, 2020. [37] https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed/breaking-point/?utm_source=chatgpt.com. [38] https://www.executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk/articles/truth-recovery-design-panel. [39] https://ombudsman.ie/en/publi… 57. Women and girls with disabilities in the UK are particularly vulnerable to sexual and gender-based violence, discrimination, and abuse, yet the response from authorities is often inadequate. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities raised concerns in 2017, stating that the rights of women and girls with disabilities have not been systematically integrated into gender equality and disability agendas, with a lack of data and measures addressing the compounded effects of multiple and intersectional discrimination[1]. Women and girls with psychosocial disabilities face significant obstacles when attempting to access justice. The prevalent practice of restricting legal capacity makes it difficult for these women to initiate or participate in legal proceedings, and their testimonies are often met with skepticism/ Service providers also tend to be slow in responding to financial abuse, further exacerbating their vulnerability.[2] [1] Ibid. [2] https://www.wbg.org.uk/article/cuts-to-social-security-for-disabled-women/. r stereotypes.
May 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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filiacharity.bsky.social
“In #Sudan, women are giving birth in unimaginable conditions. #Midwives are often the only point of care, not just for childbirth but for detecting and responding to sexual violence. Many have lost everything, yet they keep working.” Shoko Arakaki

www.passblue.com/2025/05/28/u...
US Cuts to UN Midwife Projects Will Mean More Infant Deaths
US Cuts to UN Midwife Projects Will Mean More Infant Deaths - PassBlue
www.passblue.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
sheraresearch.bsky.social
Lancaster and Nuffield FJO 2024 findings:
Half of all children did not have an opportunity to formally voice their wishes and feelings in #familycourt
Two fifths of children aged 10 to 13 in England & a greater proportion of older teenagers were unheard www.lancaster.ac.uk/law/news/new...
New research reveals the children with ‘no voice’ in the family courts - Lancaster University
Important decisions are made about a child’s life during private law proceedings – but a strikingly large proportion of children are not seen by the professionals involved, and have no voice, new rese...
www.lancaster.ac.uk
May 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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mike-salter.bsky.social
The podcast series Arachnid is now live, highlighting the human costs of decades of inaction over child sexual abuse material, with a focus on the pioneering work of @cdnchildprotect.bsky.social. Listen to the first two episodes here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...
Arachnid: Hunting the web’s darkest secrets
True Crime Podcast · Weekly Series · What if the worst thing that ever happened to you plays out every day, countless times, on anonymous computer screens all over the world.  Everyday tens of millio...
podcasts.apple.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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filiacharity.bsky.social
'If these plans go ahead, 700,000 families already living in #poverty will face further devastation,” they write. “This is not reform; it is cruelty by policy.'

More than 100 disabled celebrities urge Keir Starmer to scrap ‘inhumane’ benefit cuts

#TakingThePIP

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Disabled celebrities urge Keir Starmer to scrap ‘inhumane’ benefit cuts
Exclusive: More than 100 people including Liz Carr and Rosie Jones sign letter criticising Pip and universal credit changes
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM