by Lucy R | Jul 26, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
I am the chair of The Transparency Project. This post represents my personal view about the Dispatches programme. It is not offered as a view from The Transparency Project as an organisation. It is based on my experience over two decades as a barrister representing...
by Guest Post | Jul 23, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
The author of this post is a child protection social worker, who writes under a pseudonym, including in the Guardian. He previously wrote this post for TP. Are hundreds of thousands of families being put through unnecessary investigations by unchecked social...
by Alice T | Jul 22, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
Channel 4 broadcast an episode of its Dispatches documentary series on Tuesday, called Torn Apart: Family Courts Uncovered, presented by Louise Tickle, above. Responses to it have varied widely. Here’s mine. True, it featured a young man affected and lots of...
by Lucy R | Jul 9, 2021 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
I know I’m the chair of the Transparency Project so I’m supposed to be all ‘More transparency! Raahhhh!’. At least that is what people assume, as if transparency and privacy are mutually exclusive and as if we have to pick sides. I wish it were...
by Guest Post | Jul 8, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch
The ongoing Care Review in England has been described by its leadership as ‘a once in a generation opportunity to transform the children’s social care system and improve the lives of children and their families’. It is generating much discussion amongst practitioners...
by Paul M | Jun 18, 2021 | Comment, Transparency News
This week the Ministry of Justice announced its plans for the archiving and publication of judgments in a comprehensive new national database to be managed by The National Archives (TNA). Till now, the main official collection of court judgments has been the British...
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