Justice & Legislation Executive (JLE)

An overview of justice, legislative, and executive structures relevant to safeguarding and accountability.

Justice & Legislation Executive (JLE)

A national framework to finally enforce the law and protect victims and children.

For decades, domestic abuse victims, child victims, and protective parents have suffered because the system does not follow its own legislation. The laws exist — they are simply not applied.

There is no regulator with the legal authority to demand compliance, remove dangerous professionals, or intervene when safeguarding fails.

The Justice & Legislation Executive (JLE) is the enforcement mechanism that has never existed before.

Why the JLE Matters

Across the UK and Ireland:

  • Police dismiss criminal offences as “civil disputes”
  • Family courts minimise evidence and override safeguarding
  • PD12J is ignored
  • Coercive control laws are rarely applied
  • Children are placed with perpetrators
  • Social workers use opinion instead of evidence
  • Victims are blamed, pathologised or labelled mentally unstable
  • Complaints procedures protect professionals, not victims

There is currently no body that enforces the law across agencies.
The JLE changes that.

What the JLE Does

The JLE ensures that every professional and every organisation involved in safeguarding or victim justice:

  • Applies the law
  • Upholds safeguarding duties
  • Follows domestic abuse and coercive control legislation
  • Uses evidence, not bias or opinion
  • Protects victims and children as the first priority

This creates a single, enforceable standard of lawful professional conduct across Police, Social Care, Judiciary, CAFCASS, Guardians, Education, Health, and Local Authorities.

Powers of the JLE

The JLE has the authority to:

  • Compel cooperation from police, courts, social services and all safeguarding agencies
  • Demand evidence, case files and decision pathways
  • Mandate corrective action when law is breached
  • Remove professionals who act negligently or dangerously
  • Escalate criminal negligence
  • Report national failings and outcomes publicly

This is regulation with teeth.

The Outcome

Once established, the JLE ends the culture of “no consequences” and ensures:

  • No more ignoring abuse because a professional “doesn’t believe it”
  • No more placing children with abusers
  • No more “no further action” when evidence exists
  • No more silencing victims or dismissing trauma
  • No more unaccountable decision-making

Instead:

  • Law is followed consistently
  • Safeguarding is upheld
  • Victims are protected
  • Children are safe
  • Failures cannot be covered up

The JLE finally makes the system behave lawfully.