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I've heard the opposite, with Council House And Violent being a backronym that came after "chav" was coined, and "chav" came from someone mispronouncing the original word which was charva or charv
https://www.etymonline.com/word/chav
Pretty much all the "etymology is an acronym" things are all fabricated bollocks, spread as a joke, accidentally taken to be true. You get exceptions like "twoc(k)" for nicking cars, but all that "fornication under consent of the king" and "prisoner of mother England" and so on is all a load of shit.
Apparently one of the more likely origins for "chav" is a Romani ("gypsy") word for "child".