by Lucy R | Jul 25, 2016 | Transparency News, Trends
Our FOI request The Transparency Project has been concerned for some time about judgments from family cases being published where the anonymisation was incomplete or non-existent. Since formation we have regularly noticed or been notified of such anonymisation errors,...
by Alice T | Jul 17, 2016 | Trends
We have received around 120 replies so far, from 173 English and Welsh councils asked about adoption performance management (including ‘targets’), under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This is the second stage of research we began late last year into whether, and...
by Sarah P | Jul 8, 2016 | Analysis
What do we do when information is already in the public domain? And what are the risks to the child if an adult party is identified? On Friday 8th July the judgment was published of the President of the Family Division in the Matter of X (A Child) (No2) [2016] EWHC...
by Lucy R | Jun 19, 2016 | Comment
Community Care tweeted this week that “Adopting more children from care will save £310m, says government”, linking to the article of the same name. CommunityCare Adopting more children from care will save £310m, says government https://t.co/lCRehDDQ6a...
by Julie Doughty | Jun 17, 2016 | Cases, Explanation
An adoption order made by a court in England and Wales is normally irreversible, once the time limits for appeal have passed. This premise will be under scrutiny in October, when a re-hearing of an earlier fact-finding family court decision is scheduled. In a case...
by Lucy R | Jun 9, 2016 | Comment, Resources
We thought that The Transparency Project ought to produce a response to the recent consultation on fee-paid Mckenzie Friends. Now that we have finalised and submitted our response (just before the extended deadline – phew!) we are publishing it here for you to...
by Sarah P | Jun 8, 2016 | Events
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...
by Lucy R | Jun 6, 2016 | Explanation
In 2012, the “Ireland Report” was published. It was highly critical of the standards of psychological reports prepared for the family courts, something that there had been rumbling concerns about for years. The Ireland Report has come back into the news again...
by Lucy R | May 26, 2016 | Cases, Comment, Notorious
Lucy Reed has commented on her Pink Tape recently about a case that has been widely reported, where a father sewed bugs into his daughters school clothes and was severely criticised for it. In the blog she considers the significance of that judgment and the relevance...
by Julie Doughty | May 22, 2016 | Comment, Trends
Last Sunday, the Prime Minister was widely quoted from the Sunday Times as being ‘unashamedly pro-adoption’ in describing the new Children and Social Work Bill announced later last week in the Queen’s Speech. The aims of the provisions in the Bill on...
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