by Lucy R | Mar 2, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
We have been looking at transparency issues in connection with the regulation of social workers, in light of a case where a family court made very serious findings against 3 social workers. On the face of it, these findings would amount to serious professional...
by Lucy R | Feb 25, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
We made correction requests to three national newspapers regarding their coverage of a care case which involved (but was not about) co-sleeping. We have now received a response from all 3 of the newspapers involved. The results are below. You can read the original...
by reporting watch team | Feb 25, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
The publication of the Serious Case Review in the very sad case of Shi-Anne (Keegan) Downer, murdered at 18 months old by her Special Guardian Kandyce Downer, has prompted a fresh round of press coverage of the circumstances of her death. Kandyce Downer was convicted...
by Lucy R | Feb 23, 2017 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
Below is the text of an email response received on 16th February from the Health Care and Professional Council (HCPC), to our Open Letter of 10th February 2017 to the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) (we had cc’d the HCPC and the PSA invited them to...
by Sarah P | Feb 21, 2017 | Explanation
This post follows a recent report of an adult who has taken legal action against a local authority for failures to do their job properly or at all, resulting in harm to that individual. It is an attempt to provide a brief over-view of the likely routes to a claim for...
by Barbara Rich | Feb 20, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
On 14 February 2017, the Daily Mail reported on developments in a Court of Protection case that it has been following for some time: “an astonishing story that has come to represent all that is wrong with Britain’s shadowy Court of Protection.” The story is that of...
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