Contact Inactivity?

I promised I would post when I found the elusive list of contact activity providers that the DCSF / CAFCASS have been threatening to publish since early December. And so here is the link. I want to weep. I knew there would be holes in the provision at the outset, but in my region (the [...]

Credit Crunch Advocacy

For a bit of Monday night funtime I am reading the latest consultation document from our friends at the LSC, published as a little Christmas present to us all to cheer us into 2009. Yes dear reader, I KNOW how to enjoy myself… . It is clearly going to take me some time to wade [...]

New Year…New Law…Same Old Problems

So it’s back to work in 2009 and in my pigeonhole are several sorry tales of Christmas Contact Orders gone wrong. A timely reminder that a) its no good having an order if the court doesn’t produce a copy with the warning notice prior to the start of contact, because then it can’t be enforced using [...]

offline for xmas

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks being ‘mom’ and homemaker (if unpacking numerous moving boxes counts as making-home). its been really rather lovely to be cooped up in our new home up to my elbows in scrunched up newspaper and things I’d forgotten I owned, with the nipper circling my ankles and screeching. and [...]