Full Fact

by | Aug 26, 2015 | Resources

Full Fact is an independent, non-partisan, factchecking charity. They check claims made by politicians, the media and pressure groups, and stop misinformation spreading by pressing for corrections. They separate the facts from the spin and present our findings and...

Press reporting random scare stories helps no-one

by | Aug 25, 2015 | Comment

A particularly irritating example of opaque reporting came up under #familylaw on twitter yesterday. According to this story in the Telegraph, Child whose parents played too many video games ‘removed from family home’ Social Services said to have believed...

Survey

by | Aug 22, 2015 | Uncategorized

Just prior to the Child Protection Conference that we were involved with in June we put together a survey for participants and others with experience of the Child Protection to complete. We had high hopes for it. This post is an update on how it went with the survey....

Adoption Statistics – again

by | Aug 22, 2015 | Analysis, Explanation, Trends

John Hemming, former MP, has recently written a blog post on the Marilyn Stowe blog, called Adoption –  A look at the statistics, in which he says :  In the year to 31 March 2014 5,050 children left care through adoption, and of these 2,400 were “non consensual”...