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Editor's Notes
About The
Editor
Min Grob started
Conference on Coercive
Control in June 2015,
following a relationship that
was coercive and
controlling.
Since then, there have been
three national conferences,
various speaker
engagements and a
newsletter which has now
developed into an online
magazine.
2018 will see the start of
CCChat Discussion Groups
starting in East Anglia
before rolling out
nationwide with the next
Conference on Coercive
Control planned for the 1st
week in June at the
University of
Gloucestershire.
Min is particularly
interested in looking at
perpetrator tactics and how
they can be identified and
has spoken on how to
differentiate between
strident discourse and
deliberate baiting and
goading using examples
from social media to
illustrate the various tactics
aimed at provoking a
response and how it is
concealed. Min hopes to
enable a better
understanding of abuse that
resides below the radar to
be able to identify nearer
inception.
To get in touch:
contact@
coercivcecontrol.co.uk
Let's Start The
Conversation!
Welcome to the 3rd (and biggest!) edition of
CCChat Magazine
(all almost 80 pages of it)
Its been a busy month. Not least because the numbers of people getting in
touch are rapidly rising and time seems to be passing by faster. I daren't
blink in case I miss 6 months!
The biggest topic of interest for readers seems to be the subject of so-called
advocates ( SCAs) . I have had numerous disclosures ranging from bad
practice and non-victim-centric thinking, to reports of harassment and
intimidation and subverting information.
Many of you will have noticed the late publication of CCChat. This was due
to the need to seek legal clarification and advice from the ICO - The
Information Commissioner's Office- on a vexatious complaint. This is explored
more fully in the article on 'Mobbing'.
I was pleased to be able to volunteer for Leeway at CAMRA's 40th Norwich
Beer Festival. Leeway was appointed the Beer Festival's charity of the year
money raised during the 6 day event was a whopping £7,070. Amongst
other events I have attended, there was a presentation by DAHA to
Cambridgeshire Domestic Violence Forum, and a discussion group on parental
alienation at Westminster by the Family Law Panel.
Whilst in Cambridge I met with PhD researcher Sophia Cooke who had
recently left an abusive relationship to find the courts could not identify the
abuse.
Next month, is the Christmas edition where incidents of abuse will rise as a
result of family tension and alcohol, among other factors. CChat will be
looking at housing with an interview with Shelter CEO Polly Neate as well
as looking at the easy way accusations of stalking, harasment and coercive
control are made. We will be interviwing and talking about the research Dr
Emma Bond. as well as delving into topics that are invisible in plain sight.
Christmas may still be some time away but CCChat is more than just tinsel!!
See you next month.
Min
CCChat Magazine - Making the Invisible Visible