Daily Mail in fair and accurate reporting shock

This is an updated version of the original post last week which disappeared during a period of site maintenance. We were rather surprised by this story in the Daily Mail last week which consisted of a perfectly reasonable selection of quotations from a Court of Appeal...

Naming social workers in family court cases

Community Care has published this story about social workers’ fears of being named in the media. This reminds us that it’s not just children who worry about this prospect, but also professionals. The article is sponsored by Unison, the trade union, on behalf of their...

Other news on media and children’s privacy

More news on campaigning for children’s privacy, as the Weller case goes to the Supreme Court. Hannah Weller has started a campaign to stop the media publishing photographs of children without parents’ consent. I thought JK Rowling had already established...

Research

Family_Policy_Briefing_5 Here is a link to a policy briefing written in 2009 by Julia Brophy and Ceridwen Roberts (University of Oxford) which compares the law relating to access to family courts in a number of jurisdictions (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and...