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These are the things I know about imagination, trust, and the worlds people build when you stop correcting them, at eight or at eighty.

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Parliament's 2025 Conclusion: The Family Courts Are Causing Harm

Parliament's 2025 Conclusion: The Family Courts Are Causing Harmby: Kate

Parliament said the system is harmful. The system continues. Those two facts placed alongside each other are the accountability gap.

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Parliament's 2025 Conclusion: The Family Courts Are Causing Harm

What the Domestic Abuse Commissioner Found in 2023

What the Domestic Abuse Commissioner Found in 2023by: Kate

The system has been told three times by its own institutions. The Domestic Abuse Commissioner's 2023 report and what it confirmed about the family court.

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What the Domestic Abuse Commissioner Found in 2023

The United Nations Has Raised Human Rights Concerns About UK Family Courts

The United Nations Has Raised Human Rights Concerns About UK Family Courtsby: Kate

In February 2024 the UN Special Rapporteur conducted an official country visit to the UK. What she found and what it means for the accountability record.

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The United Nations Has Raised Human Rights Concerns About UK Family Courts

Is Anyone Actually Listening? The Health Secretary's Statement and the Question It Doesn't Ask

Is Anyone Actually Listening? The Health Secretary's Statement and the Question It Doesn't Askby: Kate

On 14 April 2026 the Health Secretary spoke ahead of the renewed Women's Health Strategy. The question the strategy does not ask and why it matters.

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Is Anyone Actually Listening? The Health Secretary's Statement and the Question It Doesn't Ask

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Build a world together, and trust follows.

Your people are being asked to trust each other across distance, across generations and through constant change. Most have never been shown how.

Kate Markland has. For a time she had one hour a week with her son Gabriel, on a FaceTime call. They spent it building a world. She asked one question, wrote down everything he said and corrected nothing. That world became three books and a method tested in nine UK schools.

In her keynote, Create the World You Want, Kate shows your audience how trust is really built, and gives them a method they can use the same evening.

For leadership, education and family audiences.

Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary
Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary

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