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Dispatches – why all the commotion is a good thing
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...
Child protection investigations – no further action necessary?
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...
Why I am OK with Dispatches
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...
When does ‘Deprivation’ become Depravation?
At the beginning of this year, I wrote a short post which tried to explain the increasingly troublesome area of Deprivation of Liberty in an accessible way. It is, in effect, the power of the High Court under its ancient powers of protection to authorise that a child...
Justice Minister responds to question in Parliament about transparency in the Family Court process – with a wrong answer…
We've just spotted that in May a Conservative MP, Robert Halfon posed this written question in the House of Commons : To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve transparency in the Family Court process. Last week, Justice...
Too much transparency even for me
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 that simple.... Last...
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