![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The act ‘has severely curtailed eligibility for legal aid in private family law cases’, the report states. The report states that the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, which came into force in April 2013, was one of the ‘major’ changes to the family justice system that ‘compound the barriers often faced by survivors of domestic abuse and the increasingly complex and arduous routes to safe child contact. In its latest publication, the charity said cases it reviewed from January 2005 to August 2015 ‘demonstrate failings that need to be addressed to ensure that the family courts, Child and Family Courts Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), children’s social work and other bodies actively minimise the possibility of further harm to women and children’. Its Twenty-nine Child Homicides report, published in 2004, gave details of 29 children in 13 families who were killed between 19. Women’s Aid’s report, Nineteen Child Homicides, tells the stories of 19 children who were killed by a parent who was also a perpetrator of domestic abuse, in circumstances relating to child contact. Victims of domestic abuse should not endure the trauma of being cross-examined by their abusers in court, a national charity has recommended in a study on child deaths. ![]()
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