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Bradford Council’s claim that it has decided to cut foster care allowances to the government national minimum level to comply with the law rather than principally to reduce costs
Saturday’s local Telegraph and Argus report, (‘Union hits out at Council plans to cut foster carers allowances’) of Bradford City Council's plan to reduce the core child element of their foster care allowances to the government minimum level, triggered twitter...
Women’s Aid answer our queries about their evidence base
We have been in dialogue with Women's Aid about assertions made by them that family courts frequently breach PD12J (practice direction in the Family Courts concerning domestic abuse) by allowing victims to be cross examined by their abusers. We wanted to understand...
“Three sisters whose parents didn’t give them names are taken into care”
The headline and sub-header “Three sisters whose parents didn't give them names are taken into care”; “Judge Sarah Lynch said the youngest girl - aged four months - had been registered just by her surname.” This was the headline and sub-header used in the 4th...
Family Court Reporting Watch: Weekly Round Up
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published Judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES / FAMILY JUSTICE ISSUES ...
Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup
Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA (MIS)REPORTS OF FAMILY COURT CASES The Times and the Telegraph - Polly Morgan...
Adopted children – demons or angels?
We are hearing a lot this week about the virtues of the free press, but some journalists never seem to tire of advocating social engineering and labelling children as either demons or angels (rather than individual human beings). This blog post is about four recent...
A genius from another planet?
The Telegraph reported just before Christmas that : Millionaire seeks greater share in divorce because he is a 'genius', prompting court to examine the meaning of the word The case is one involving a multimillionaire financier who is unhappy with the equal...
Family Court Reporting Watch
Weekly Round Up Correcting, clarifying or commenting on media reports of family court cases Explaining or commenting on published judgments of family court cases Highlighting other transparency news MEDIA REPORTS OF FAMILY COURTS CASES The Daily Mail...
The Stolen Children of England – Maggie Mellon’s Response
This is a guest post written by social worker Maggie Mellon, in response to blog posts by Sarah Phillimore previously published on this blog here and here. As with Sarah's posts, this post is a comment piece and represents the views of the author, not necessarily that...
Guardian report that a ‘radical trial’ of family court hearings in public is about to be announced
“Certain family court hearings to take place in public in radical trial” claimed the Guardian headline on the night before Christmas Eve. “James Munby, head of high court’s family division, to continue far-reaching reforms to bring more transparency to the system”...