Clare Bradley

What Lawyers Should Actually Be Asking Before Recommending a Perpetrator Programme When a family court directs a client to complete a domestic abuse perpetrator programme, the instruction can feel straightforward. Find a programme, refer the client, wait for a report. But the quality of that report, and what it actually tells you, varies enormously. Not all programmes are built the same way, and not all final reports give you what you need to advise your client or present a credible picture...

Online DAPP Sessions Work. Here's Why Physical Presence Was Never the Point. There's a persistent assumption that meaningful behavioural change requires sitting in the same room as someone. That something is lost through a screen. That the work can't be as deep, as challenging, or as real if it's delivered online. In my experience, that assumption is wrong, and I'd go further: for many of the people I work with, online delivery is precisely what makes it possible for them to engage honestly...

Family Court Is Not Your Enemy For many people who come to us, the family court feels like a threat. It feels like a system designed to punish, to judge, to take things away. That perception is understandable. But it is also, in our experience, one of the most significant barriers to genuine behaviour change. When someone enters family court proceedings convinced that the process is working against them, they approach the whole thing defensively. And a defensive mindset is not one that is...