by Julie Doughty | Aug 25, 2015 | Comment
A particularly irritating example of opaque reporting came up under #familylaw on twitter yesterday. According to this story in the Telegraph, Child whose parents played too many video games ‘removed from family home’ Social Services said to have believed...
by David Burrows | Aug 14, 2015 | Comment, Transparency News
Consultation on draft amendment rules From at least last summer, the people who run the family courts have been concerned about the roles of children’s evidence and views in family proceedings; and the participation in proceedings of ‘vulnerable’ individuals (see...
by Sarah P | Jul 24, 2015 | Comment
I wrote one blog post this week which I thought was about one thing – the irritating promotion of a dangerous untruth that the UK is the ‘only’ country in Europe or even the World that permits ‘forced adoption’. Interestingly, the focus...
by Sarah P | Jul 23, 2015 | Comment
The continuing myth that the UK is the ‘only’ country that permits ‘forced adoption’. It is ironic to note that the source of the title quote, so often used by the late great Sir Terry Pratchett has itself often been falsely attitributed...
by Julie Doughty | Jul 17, 2015 | Comment
Or – Will we ever have a responsible, regulated press in the UK? Here at the Transparency Project, we are always conscious of the need to balance the interests of freedom of expression with privacy and the public with private interests. These principles were...
by Sarah P | Jun 23, 2015 | Comment
The issue of recording what is said between parents and social workers in meetings or assessments was raised by parents at #CPConf2015. This sparked a lot of interest, following Louise Tickle’s article for the Guardian on 17th June 2015 – ‘Social...
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