"Trauma Factories": How paralysed family courts are destroying lives

Children’s lives are on hold, families are broken, and abusers are exploiting delays in the badly overworked, badly underfunded legal system.

CW: Contains references to abuse

Photo by Dragon White Munthe on Unsplash

In August, when UK streets erupted in xenophobic rioting, the government's response was swift and decisive. Newly-elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer mobilised police forces, fast-tracked prosecutions and told judges to work around the clock. The violence was quelled.

But the governm…