Maypole's reports
and responses to Government consultations
Domestic abuse: there's no escape, April 2009
Describes how domestic abuse presents at separation, and how family law fails to protect women and children. Submitted to Ending Violence Against Women, Home Office consultation, 2009.
Valuing Motherhood: meeting the needs of women and children at separation and divorce, 2010
Executive Summary, Valuing Motherhood, 2010
Highlights many of the issues women and children face through separation and divorce - issues which have been routinely ignored in family law. Submitted to the Family Law review, Ministry of Justice, 2010.
Our response explains how the proposed changes will exclude the most financially vulnerable, and inadvertently empower perpetrators of abuse.
