Expose, legislate, argue, and organise. Each move needs the other three. Evidence with nobody to hand it to changes nothing; and a law nobody is backing gets rejected.
We dig into what is really happening and who is profiting, then we let the people living with the consequences speak for themselves. People can argue with an opinion, not with evidence.
We sit down with MPs, analyse the evidence with the experts, and keep going back until it moves. Good law only happens when the people writing it understand the harm; so we brief them, and we hand them the plan as well as the problem.
We say what most people are too nervous to say out loud, in essays, research and the media, and we make the case for something better than this. Laws follow culture. A rule the public doesn't believe in never lasts.
Campaigns, events, survivors speaking up, and coalitions we convene so charities and experts push as one. You are probably already uneasy about this, and almost everyone who is assumes they are the only one.
If it only treats the aftermath, it isn't our job. We support and back the people who do that instead.
Every claim is sourced and published openly. We hold ourselves to the standard we ask of the industry.
We believe an argument is incomplete if it only appeals to a single echo chamber. To create real change, our messaging must cross boundaries and speak to everyone: from political and faith-based groups to feminist and clinical circles.
By Lauren Agnew, Head of Policy ' Public Affairs, CEASE CEASE strongly welcomes the Government's decisive action to raise the age of access to 16 for
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By Lauren Agnew, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, CEASE CEASE'is'really pleased'to see'the Government have taken onboard recommendations from Barone
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