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I am writing to you because you signed your name or supported the #nomoreCSEfilms campaign, signed up to receive updates on my campaigns and work – or you contributed to the ‘Can I tell you what it feels like?’ report in January 2018 which was the first ever report to document the harm caused by showing sexually violent materials to children as an ‘educational’ or ‘preventative’ method.
I am very pleased (and quite emotional) to write to you all to say that we succeeded. After a year of campaigning, I have now received letters and calls from national charities, police authorities, regulatory bodies and the UN Cybercrime department to confirm that they are all withdrawing the use of CSE films. A number of national organisations and police authorities are preparing to release statements or new policies to stop the use of CSE films with children in the UK. These statements and policies will begin to emerge into public over the next few weeks and months. What I can be sure of, is that everyone from those bodies and organisations have agreed that we need to leave the CSE films behind and move to trauma informed and evidence based working.
I cannot thank you enough for your signature, your interest, your support and your letters. A special thank you to the young people and adults who were harmed by the use of CSE films who told me their stories – and thank you to the parents who wrote to me about the harm of their children.
We have done something very important here. We have changed an entire culture in the field of social care and policing, in which it was assumed that showing children films of other children being abused, could actually protect them from sex offenders. We have stopped children from being retraumatised in their school classrooms and assembly halls.
Thank you so much. You helped change practice for real children. This is activism.
Best Wishes,
Jessica Eaton
Founder
Email: Jessica@victimfocus.org.uk
Call: 07771462616
Website: www.victimfocus.org.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/jessicaforenpsych/
Tweet: @JessicaE13Eaton and @victimfocus
CBS kicked off their new charity partnership with a £250 cheque as part of our new charity relationship!
Lots of events and activities are being planned by CBS and it's great that we've been given this opportunity to raise awareness!
Please see the news release here
If you are looking for friendly, free and confidential advice or support around domestic abuse, or are working with someone who needs specialist support, please come along to our Drop-In Sessions at our women-only safe space.
Where: Our Open Access Sessions are held at The Listening Post, 22 Marlborough Road, Coventry CV2 4EP
When: every Monday and Wednesday from 10am - 2pm - no referral or appointment needed, JUST DROP-IN!
For more information, please call:
02476 444 077 or
email: info@coventryhaven.co.uk
We hope to see you soon!
7th May 2018 - Earlsdon High Street - May Day Bank Holiday
We;ll be based at the primary school next to the library.
We look forward to chatting to you about the services we provide!
Tally Ho Birmingham Police Centre
What a great event held 12th February at The tally HO. Great to see how we are all the agencies, health, police, social care and the voluntary sector wanting to work together to ensure safe practices and safe opportunities for women to talk and disclose. Also to see the importance that building the trust within these communities to enable delivery of knowledge and information surrounding the impact on health and child birth and also the mental health issues that can be linked to FGM.
Important to hear the Theory of Change and the social impact and return on investment from Sophie McHale and the conclusion of her 18 months work on the project, alongside our own Rachel delivering with one of the FGM Champions Ashleigh, and how they are embracing the many different affected communities. This is not just an African issue.
Always great to hear Birmigham and Solihull Women's Aid plus the details of the new project in health for GP's.
Well done to all involved!
As a Service User, past or present, you have a unique perspective into the delivery of our services and we would like to invite you to get involved on an ongoing basis to shape the services that we provide.
We value your involvement and would love to hear your feedback on:
If you are interested in becoming a part of the decision making within our organisation, please register your interest to the following email address:
Or call 02476 444 077 or write to 30 Hen Lane, Coventry CV6 4LB.
We look forward to hearing 'Your Voice'.
We would like to confirm the date for our next AGM which is being held on Wednesday 31st January 2018, at 30 Hen Lane, Coventry CV6 4LB, from 4.30pm.
Members will have the opportunity to:
Throughout the campaign, the leave side diverted their discontent to a scapegoat of immigration and fuelled xenophobia. While there is consensus that the result is linked to inequality, the impact of migration on inequality is contested.
The Womens Budget Group recent Policy Brief shows that inequality in the UK increased not because of migration, i.e. the mobility of labour, but because of the increased fallback options of capital related to increased capital mobility in the form of FDI and financialisation; declining fallback options of labour related to the decline in collective bargaining power, deregulation of the labour market, zero hours contracts and false self-employed contracts, austerity, housing crisis and rising household debt, which in turn is linked to financialisation and inequality.
The quick conclusions related to the impact of immigration on inequality, without adequately decomposing the impact of all other factors, misses the point that correlation is not causation.
The real solution to inequality requires regulating finance and the corporate governance of corporations, taming capital mobility, increasing public investment in social infrastructure and housing, regulating the labour market and improving the legislation to increase the voice of trade unions and collective bargaining coverage.
