Family Law Conference

The Manchester Centre for Law in Society and the Sylvia Pankhurst Gender Research Centre are holding a Family Law Conference on 4 March 2017 (10am – 4pm). Speakers : Rebecca Probert, Warwick University ‘The women who did: feminism, free love & freedom’...

Child Protection Conference 2016 – presentations

With apologies for the delay, here are the available presentations from the Child Protection Conference on 3 June 2016. We have also recently published a transcript of the panel discussion that took place on the day, which you can find here. Andy Bilson : Presentation...

Panel Discussions at CPConf2016 – where do we go from here?

Panel Discussion CPConf2016  3rd June 2016 This is a partial transcript typed up by Sarah Phillimore from the audio recording of the discussion at the end of CPConf2016 which took place at Birmingham on June 3rd 2016. Some parts are incomplete as the recording was not...

CPConf2016 – How did it go?

On 3rd June 2016, the Transparency Project hosted the second Child Protection conference aimed at examining and discussing how the child protection system operates in England and Wales. Having concluded last year that the system wasn’t fit for purpose, the...

CPConf2016 Manifesto

What do we want to achieve? This is a post by Sarah Phillimore, wearing her ‘conference organiser’ hat. The Transparency Project is supporting CPConf2016 as an example of an event that aims to improve public understanding of the family law system.  It is...

Adoption – where are we now?

Varying views and concerns have emerged in the weeks following the publication of the government paper on adoption in England. The policy landscape is still far from clear or agreed. The Supreme Court judgment published this week, on whether it is in the best...