by reporting watch team | Nov 15, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Joanna Nicolas wrote recently that Details of care cases are concealed for good reason. The press must respect that (The Guardian, 1 Nov 2017). In her article she said that I believe few journalists write about children’s social care with integrity; few are interested...
by Louise Tickle | Oct 9, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The Muslim foster care case first reported in The Times has prompted harsh criticism of the choices made by journalists when investigating complaints about poor social work practice. I make no comment on the writing, front page positioning, headline or the intentions...
by reporting watch team | Oct 2, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We have covered the case originally headlined “Christian child forced into foster care” on a number of occasions. Our earlier posts can be found here : Religious and cultural identity in foster care, 28 Aug The most secretive court in all of Christendom…,...
by reporting watch team | Sep 10, 2017 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This is a guest post by Mena Ruparel. Mena (@avoidgravity) is a solicitor and co-author of “How to be an ethical solicitor” published by Bath Publishing. On 31 August the Court of Appeal handed down the judgment in the big money case of Mr and Mrs Hart....
by reporting watch team | Sep 5, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We’ve written about the so-called “muslim foster care case” already (here and here). We’ve been somewhat critical of the coverage by The Times. But we are a little concerned that some of the criticism we have seen of media reports, particularly...
by reporting watch team | Aug 18, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This is a sad and unsatisfactory story. In November last year, the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal brought by an unnamed social worker and an unnamed police officer against findings of an unnamed judge against them. The unusual feature of the case was that neither...
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