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To: Sarah Dines MP, Jess Phillips MP
Acknowledgment & Training in Co-Parent Abuse
Working with co-parents gives me a worrying insight into the widespread harrasment, abuse and parental alienation suffered by separated parents everyday.
Most times this behaviour is seen as the norm, and is largely misunderstood by organisations, most notably UK Police forces.
Sustained campaigns of harrasment, threats and even physical violence are being overlooked by police as a 'civil' or 'family' matter that officers are quite clearly unwilling or unprepared to be involved in.
Co-parents are steered towards family court rather than receiving the help they need for acts of criminality.
So many co-parents are uninformed themselves on where this abuse falls under UK law, and are resigned to dealing with it alone.
As per The Domestic Abuse Act 2021;
Definition of “personally connected”
(1)For the purposes of this Act, two people are “personally connected” to each other if any of the following applies—
(a)they are, or have been, married to each other;
(b)they are, or have been, civil partners of each other;
(c)they have agreed to marry one another (whether or not the agreement has been terminated);
(d)they have entered into a civil partnership agreement (whether or not the agreement has been terminated);
(e)they are, or have been, in an intimate personal relationship with each other.
We are looking for co-parent abuse (harassment, malicious communications, threats, violence) to be acknowledged with the seriousness of other offences that fall under The Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
We are calling for police forces and Domestic Abuse support officers to be better trained in the dynamics of separated families and coparent abuse.
Co-parent abuse negatively affects the mental wellbeing of the parents and the children concerned, and we are calling on Sarah Dines, MP (Minister for Safeguarding) and Shadow Secretary for Safeguarding Jess Phillips, MP to bring awareness to co-parent abuse, and ensure it is taken seriously in UK law, for the good of families across the country.
Most times this behaviour is seen as the norm, and is largely misunderstood by organisations, most notably UK Police forces.
Sustained campaigns of harrasment, threats and even physical violence are being overlooked by police as a 'civil' or 'family' matter that officers are quite clearly unwilling or unprepared to be involved in.
Co-parents are steered towards family court rather than receiving the help they need for acts of criminality.
So many co-parents are uninformed themselves on where this abuse falls under UK law, and are resigned to dealing with it alone.
As per The Domestic Abuse Act 2021;
Definition of “personally connected”
(1)For the purposes of this Act, two people are “personally connected” to each other if any of the following applies—
(a)they are, or have been, married to each other;
(b)they are, or have been, civil partners of each other;
(c)they have agreed to marry one another (whether or not the agreement has been terminated);
(d)they have entered into a civil partnership agreement (whether or not the agreement has been terminated);
(e)they are, or have been, in an intimate personal relationship with each other.
We are looking for co-parent abuse (harassment, malicious communications, threats, violence) to be acknowledged with the seriousness of other offences that fall under The Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
We are calling for police forces and Domestic Abuse support officers to be better trained in the dynamics of separated families and coparent abuse.
Co-parent abuse negatively affects the mental wellbeing of the parents and the children concerned, and we are calling on Sarah Dines, MP (Minister for Safeguarding) and Shadow Secretary for Safeguarding Jess Phillips, MP to bring awareness to co-parent abuse, and ensure it is taken seriously in UK law, for the good of families across the country.
Why is this important?
Co-Parent abuse is mentally damaging for parents and children caught in the cross-fire.
This widespread form of abuse is being overlooked under UK law, and families and children from all walks of life, across the country, are being let down and being allowed to continuing suffering.
This widespread form of abuse is being overlooked under UK law, and families and children from all walks of life, across the country, are being let down and being allowed to continuing suffering.
