"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
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…
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