We're so pleased we were able to help Carol gain justice and accountability after West Yorkshire Police's appalling handling of her reports of child sex abuse.

Like all our clients, Carol has shown incredible bravery and resilience.

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Thousands of children are languishing in unregistered faith schools. These schools prioritise fundamentalist religion over the education and welfare of children. The scandal of #UnregisteredSchools must be addressed. Join our campaign 👇 secularism.org.uk/unregistered-s…

Well that sure seems like a plan that's going to help reduce depression and anxiety.

I've read a few tweets, and even a journal article (!) this weekend arguing that spiritual abuse is hard or impossible define and effectively meaningless.

So I wanted to take a moment to point to one of the best definitions from @lisaroakley and make a couple of comments 🧵

The infected blood scandal should be getting as much attention as the post office scandal. Every testimony highlights the horrific harms done.

‘My mum gave the injections that killed my brothers’: how UK’s infected blood scandal has torn lives apart

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'A church in which honest acknowledgement and expression of homosexual identity is denied, creates a culture of secrecy around issues of sexuality more generally, which can then facilitate abuse'

.Harriet Wistrich has a book out this week, and it's brilliant (as is she):
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I’ve just finished reading an advance copy of Harriet’s book, which I’m reviewing. An amazing lawyer. It brought back memories of the battles over John Worboys & how Harriet’s successful challenge to his release was initially disparaged as hopeless by many legal commentators

Feminist Dissent views fundamentalism mobilisations as modern political movements of the extreme Right. This film looks to be essential viewing about the rise of Christian Nationalism.

On my way to chat to Nana Akua GB News about the #notmyshame TM campaign…..made the political spot ✌🏼 see you there!

Live at 340pm with Charlie Lawson 😘

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Ponder this: In 1999, priest tells his church supervisors that he molested 9 kids. They stay silent about it until 2018. Now, priest faces 70 accusers. Shame shame shame on New Orleans Archbishop Greg Aymond #ChurchToo   #catholicchurch #RCCAbuse
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Labour pledges to renationalise most rail services within five years. Now let’s ban profit from children’s homes and foster care. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

I'm excited to announce the creation of the Violent Extremism Lab, which I'll be leading at University of Oxford's Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (CSSC). Check out our research, publications and upcoming events here: cssc.web.ox.ac.uk/the-violent-ex….
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Important news on the CofE Redress Scheme structure.

Published today on The Church of England

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Ahead of plans to grant non-parties access to court documents in civil proceedings, my colleague Kim Harrison who is vice president of APIL has highlighted the need to safeguard vulnerable parties and children from public disclosure

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Very concerning to see religious authority set up as a parallel legal system. By nature, religious ‘courts’ are concerned with ideology ahead of justice. Disputes should be resolved via secular process, where our shared system of law is applied equally.
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Wonderful conference. Wonderful discussions and I’m so glad to see spaces where we can talk about abuse in minority faith settings in a meaningful way to educate and inform practitioners and professionals. Big thanks to Saint Mary's SARC and Richard Scorer

Thank you Saint Mary's SARC for hosting a wonderful and insightful conference. We were delighted to co-present with Richard Scorer from Slater and Gordon UK to discuss the difficulties of disrupting abuse in minority faith settings. 1.🧵

Important and well researched paper by Judith Maltby on connection between CofE safeguarding and #LLF . Hope this is read by all bishops and #synod members and clergy in Church of England.

This informs debate. Or should.

#stmarysconf24 incredibly inspiring talk from Sukhvinder Kaur Sikh Womens Aid Setting abuse rates of 2/3 Sikh women experiencing domestic violence & 1/3 #CSA (n=829) in context of wider lack of regulation across all religious spaces evidenced by Richard Scorer