by reporting watch team | Oct 28, 2025 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Trends
Section 1(2A) of the Children Act 1989, as amended in 2014, states that, with regard to applications for child arrangements orders under Section 8: A court … is as respects each parent … to presume, unless the contrary is shown, that involvement of that parent in the...
by Julie Doughty | Oct 24, 2025 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
Six children, aged between two and twelve, were removed from their parents’ care because they had suffered chronic neglect and emotional harm, after court proceedings that had lasted 28 weeks and local authority involvement for 12 years. I’ve written about two...
by reporting watch team | Oct 22, 2025 | FCReportingWatch, FOI, Trends
We’ve sent in a series of requests under the Freedom of Information Act about the review of the presumption of parental involvement since the ‘urgent’ review was announced by the government in 2020. We have been asking about the continued delay in publishing the...
by reporting watch team | Oct 16, 2025 | FCReportingWatch, Resources
The Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales (DAC) this week published a report, Everyday Business: Addressing domestic abuse and continuing harm through a family court review and reporting mechanism by Mandy Burton and Rosemary Hunter, Loughborough...
by reporting watch team | Oct 11, 2025 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Open Reporting
This topic was recently covered in a consultation issued by judges that updates guidance to courts on what level of judge or magistrate should sit on a case and generally how applications received will be efficiently administered. The guidance says that it applies to...
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