Deborah Simpson 💙

Bexley DASV strategy manager, independent trainer, Domestic abuse coordinator / IDVA/YPVA, MARAC chair,accredited trainer, DHR chair. Views expressed are my own

[Nadski @nadski65]

This is Britain in 2026,
You can report domestic violence, coercive control, and child sexual abuse, provide evidence to the criminal justice system, and still lose your children to the alleged perpetrator through the Family Court.

Imagine being the parent who raised your children, only to spend 8 years in a contact centre, under close supervision, paying to see your own children.

There is a Child Arrangements Order in place, yet when the other parent does not follow it, instead of enforcement, you are given a barring order — twice — preventing you from bringing the issue back to court.

If @Keir_Starmer and @ShabanaMahmood believe the only crisis is in criminal justice, they need to look closely at the Family Court system too.

For many families, the system does not feel protective — it feels punitive.

How can justice exist when safeguarding evidence is ignored, orders are not enforced equally, and children lose safe parents?
#FamilyCourt #DomesticAbuse #CoerciveControl #ChildProtection #FamilyJustice #UK @MoJGovUK @JudicialWatch @MyCafcass @The_HCPC @NACCCofficial @DrProudman @elonmusk @RupertLowe10 @SheraFamily @hrw @katie @ITV @BBC @BBCPanorama @ChildrensComm

[Dame Nicole Jacobs @CommissionerDA]

We must learn from every life lost to DA. However, the lack of dedicated funding for DHRs risks meaning vital learnings aren't identified and taken forward to protect other victims.

I urge govt to reconsider, and to be braver and bolder in its decisions.

https://t.co/vzlAA6gROj

[Stuart Gardner Dosh @gardnerstuart39]

This is important if you have views on Personal Independence Payment and welfare benefits for the sick and disabled you might consider making a contribution.

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

NEW MENTAL HEALTH CONSULTATION

Labour has launched a call for evidence to shape a new ‘Mental Health Strategy for England’. Deadline: 10 July. https://t.co/15Rj1nT18f We’ll need as many responses as poss. It’s prevention and AI focused with an emphasis on work. Fonagy chairing.

[SHERA Research Group: Health Law Rights Support © @SheraFamily]

Survivors shouldn’t have to survive the family courts too.
Jasminder’s story is a devastating reminder that #coercivecontrol doesn’t always end after leaving an abuser; it can continue through the legal system itself.
#DomesticAbuse #FamilyCourts https://t.co/td8Dya15H0

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

Episode 1 of Believe Me was an uncomfortable watch.

Sarah did everything asked of her, yet her case was dropped, leaving her attacker free to harm others.

This is something we still see in our wider work.

Believe Me continues tonight on ITV1 & ITVX.

#EHCRProtectsWomen

[Deborah Simpson 💙 @DebeeSimpson]

@Blanche1883 I know it is, I'm just hoping that this will highlight it further. Total change needs to happen from police to courts, education, attitudes, sentencing, training! This cannot continue

[Deborah Simpson 💙 @DebeeSimpson]

#believeme I hope EVERY police officer involved in these cases are thoroughly ashamed of themselves and are no longer serving. #believeme victims i am so sorry for what you went through. #webelieveyou

[Centre for Women's Justice @centreWJ]

📺 Tonight 9pm on ITV1

Believe Me tells the story of the legal battle fought by two survivors of serial rapist taxi driver, John Worboys to hold the police accountable for the failures in their investigation.

https://t.co/M25t0UJX6y

#EHCRProtectsWomen

[Jools @Jools666]

Just when you think the Met Police can't be any more incompetent you watch Believe Me and realise they can. The way these ladies were treated with such contempt by the police force is a national disgrace. I hope some officers are struggling to sleep at night #believeme

[Andrew McBride @andrewmcb]

🚨 a woman is allowed to have a drink
🚨 a woman is allowed to wear red nail varnish
🚨 a woman is allowed to wear nice clothes
🚨 Men are NOT allowed to r@pe women or men “Believe Me”
#BelieveMe

[Natalie Page @NataliePage]

Child homicide should never be a side effect of the family court process. Like a Russian roulette, case after case is churned through the system, and every so often, one of them is lethal.

[Deborah Simpson 💙 @DebeeSimpson]

Sadly not a long enough sentence, it should be life. RIP Kol

https://t.co/StpNenrMcB

[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

I'm fed up of seeing women and girls abused or murdered after police were explicitly warned.

The response is always the same: “oops, we’ll do better next time,” followed by a self-referral to the IOPC that clears them in the majority of cases.

You’re supposed to protect these women and girls, not be part of the problem.

We need real accountability, transparency, and a proper independent investigation into this failing system.

This isn’t “one off” it’s happening every single day.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"I actually felt like I’d faced evil for the first time…”

Amanda Stanhope, who has waived her legal right to anonymity, speaks to @vicderbyshire about how she was inspired by Gisèle Pelicot to speak out after being raped by her ex-partner multiple times while she was sedated.

#Newsnight

[Dr Jenny Thatcher @JennyAThatcher]

I think what you mean to say is:

Jo Shaw was killed by her ex-partner after he forced his way into her house armed with a device minutes before an explosion that killed both them.

Jo had previously reported him to the police.

R.I.P Jo

[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

Surrey County Council is refusing to release a damning report into the horrific abuse of 10-year-old Sara Sharif to protect her killer father's data protection rights,

the report reveals authorities had known about Urfan Sharif's extensive domestic violence history for years but repeatedly failed to protect his daughter,

Sara was tortured with over 100 injuries including being beaten with a cricket bat and metal pole, strangled until her neck broke, burnt with an iron and bitten before she was murdered in August 2023,

despite known risks the council granted her violent father a licence to transport vulnerable schoolchildren,

social workers lost key evidence in the system and failed to join the dots on her repeated unexplained injuries,

the risk posed by Sharif was overlooked, underestimated and not acted upon by almost all professionals involved,

Woking MP Will Forster has slammed the council for prioritising the murderer's privacy over child safety and called for them to be put into special measures,

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

This man murdered a woman and then killed himself. The police failed her. He had previous, she had left him and still no one saved her from him.

Her name was Jo Shaw https://t.co/ySTusStdxM

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

A man murdered his ex-partner with a grenade which also killed him
Domestic Abuse was called a “National Emergency” 18 months ago
1 in 4 women suffer it
1 in 5 sexually assaulted
2 killed every week by (ex) partners
Where are the Cobra meetings?
Where are the press conferences?

[Rebecca Tidy @DrRebeccaTidy]

Jo Shaw died yesterday after her ex Ryan Kelly forced his way into her Bristol house & killed her.

She had made repeated domestic abuse reports to Avon & Somerset Police, yet he was still roaming free.

Women are told to report violence. Jo did.