CWJ works to drive systemic change through policy and legal reform, using our strong evidence base and centring the voices of victim-survivors. CWJ not only works to change the law, but also to ensure that improved laws, policies and practices are properly implemented, sustained and protected.
You can find our consultation responses, briefings and research reports on our Research and Submissions page
TRANSFORMING LAW, POLICY AND PRACTICE
Police Super-Complaints
Police super-complaints are one of the ways we challenge harmful policing practices and push for systemic change. CWJ is one of a small number of organisations designated to make a super-complaint, which allows us to raise concerns about policing patterns or practices that are causing harm to the public. Super-complaints are not about individual cases. They are a way of drawing attention to wider, systemic problems and pressing for change across policing.
These are the super-complaints we have submitted or contributed to so far:
2020 - Super-complaint: Failure to address police perpetrated domestic abuse (Annex 2 - FOI data can be viewed here)
Some of our campaign wins
2024 - Keep Counselling Confidential: A a Landmark Privacy Win
CWJ and partners (EVAW and Rape Crisis England and Wales) secured a changed to the Victim and Prisoners Bill, raising the threshold for police/CPS access to rape survivors’ therapy notes - a major national victory for survivors’ privacy
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2023 - 'Daisy’s Law’: Recognising Children Born of Rape as Secondary Victims
Working alongside our client ‘Daisy’ resulted in the Government adoption of a legal change ensuring children born of rape gain statutory victim status withing the Victims and Prisoners Bill.
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2022 - New Criminal Offence of Non-Fatal Strangulation.
We played a key campaigning role in securing a standalone offence withint the Domestic Abuse Act, Briefing peers and supplying frontline evidence. We then helped shape national judicial training on the new law.