Overview

• Mel B publicly endorsed Claire Throssell’s Child First campaign and appealed to the prime minister to move faster on protections for domestic abuse survivors.
• Throssell’s sons, Jack and Paul, were murdered by their father in 2014 after court‑approved access, a case she says followed ignored warnings to social workers, the courts and Cafcass.
• The campaign’s petition has surpassed 110,000 signatures, calling for repeal of the family‑court ‘presumption of contact’ that prioritizes time with both parents even where abuse is documented.
• The 2020 HARM Panel found family‑court practices were putting children at risk, and a Women’s Aid report records 19 further child killings in the past decade and 67 over 30 years linked to perpetrators of domestic abuse.
• MPs including Marie Tidball, Matthew Patrick and minister Alex Davies‑Jones voiced support following Labour conference events, as Throssell released her memoir For My Boys with a foreword by Mel B.