Maya's Law: County Durham family say fight continues despite minister resignations
The family two year-old Maya Chappell say ministerial changes can re-traumatising too
The County Durham family behind the Maya's Law campaign say they're not going to stop just because people in Government are changing.
It's been over a week since a number of ministers resigned, including Jess Phillips who oversaw safeguarding and violence against women and girls.
Maya's Law looks to strength safeguarding for at-risk children with a disclosure scheme.
It's in honour of two year-old Maya Chappell who was shaken to death in 2022 by her mum's partner at the time.
Gemma Chappell, Maya's great-aunt, said: "We're still having children being killed on a weekly, daily basis, and abused by the thousands in the UK.
"We've got to keep going, we've got the tenacity to keep going. What it does do for us, as a campaign and as people that are going through the trauma of losing Maya, what it does do is we have to revisit it all because we have to then speak to new people and we have to update them in what's going on, we have to explain it all again.
"When it comes to campaigning and you have to revisit it all the time, and we will continue to do that, however, unfortunately when these people that have already been making those changes and already had that input then change over, it does have an impact on the family with regards to like the welfare and the trauma.
"We have to start again with these people, don't we? So they have to start again, so that then puts us back in time because they have to then get an understanding of it. They have to do their research and what have you. And then that puts us back a little bit of a more step, which is, especially since our debate, we now need to move from sympathy and talk into action.
"We get messages on a daily basis around sort of families that are going through issues and troubles that they need help with and they feel like they're not getting the correct help and then they've come back to us and said you've really helped us, we've got an understanding of it now, we've got the support that we need.
"The awareness out there is massive and it's bigger than I ever imagined and it's just going to keep getting bigger because we're going to keep hammering at it to get it to make it sure it's bigger because there's still people out there in the UK that don't know about this.
"I definitely believe that somewhere we've protected a child and we've saved a child's life. We can do so much, we can say so much, we can use our voices, me and Rachael, for Maya and for all of these children. However, right now, since we've had that debate, since we've past over 100,000 signatures, it's now over to the UK, to the public to stand up and say, our children deserve better in the UK."