Yes. The family court is an abusers charter. Do a course, tick a box, boom then not abusive. Some foolish person who has every incentive to say yes. How many of these men “fail” the course?
You can’t fail except not to turn up. If you are a sadist who enjoys beating up little girls you will definitely turn up.
Someone, somewhere, is making a lot of money from these courses and a lot of children are let down. Some hurt or killed. It should stop.
It is a disgrace. Every time one of these horrific cases comes to light we are told "lessons will be learned". It is extremely obvious that the current social services system and family court system does not protect children. This is a proven fact. Yet no changes are made.
The idea that a "course" turn an abuser into an adequate parent is laughable. There is no evidence whatsoever to support this and plenty to the contrary.
Any instance of abuse should immediately mean that someone is prohibited from living in the same house as a child for the rest of their life. Children must be removed the first time it happens. Zero tolerance. Family courts are completely corrupt and repeatedly prioritise the "rights" of abusive adults over their victims, even when the victims are children.
The care systems in other countries such as Denmark show that with proper funding, stable staff in small children's homes so that children can recover properly and form bonds of trust with their new carers and access appropriate therapy and support, children in care can achieve the same average outcomes as those living with families, despite their trauma.
It is a choice in the UK not to do this and to continue to abandon endless children to abuse. We hear only about a tiny, tiny proportion of them. It is a shame on our country that we don't protect the most vulnerable members of society, and it is shameful that funding for functioning children's services never features anywhere in the top ten voter priorities reported in politicial polls. There is an outpouring when yet another entirely predictable incident is reported yet who is pressuring politicians to DO SOMETHING about it? It should be the highest priority in our funding list.