Why I’m starting Project KITE
I am setting up Project KITE because the recognition and protection this campaign fights for was not there for me as a child.
Systemic failures meant the abuse in our home did not end in a conviction. Without one, my experience as a child was overlooked and treated as less real, and visits could still go ahead.
I want to change that.
No child should have to keep the peace in their own home. Project KITE exists so the next child doesn’t have to.
When I looked at the law and the systems that are meant to respond, I found real progress, but also real gaps. Children are increasingly recognised in principle, yet that recognition is uneven, often conditional, and too often lost between services, courts and data.
I have worked with UNICEF, spoken for the European Commission’s Team Europe Direct network and run a presidential campaign. I am bringing that experience in partnerships, policy and campaigning to one question: what would it take for every child’s experience to count?
Guided by expertise.
Our advisory board is in formation. We are inviting experts across six areas to guide the campaign and review every claim we make.
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What Project KITE is not.
Important protections for children already exist in law and policy. The work now is to make recognition clearer, more consistent and more meaningful in practice.
A replacement for domestic-violence services.
Legal or therapeutic advice.
A judgement on parents experiencing abuse.
A demand that children disclose personal experiences.
A platform for children’s stories without strong safeguarding.
A claim that existing systems recognise nothing.
A substitute for emergency protection or professional support.