by familoo | 11 Oct 2017 | rants
by Pamela Neal (28 Oct 6.30pm, London) Can we make happy families? Can we impose identity on a child? Do we need to ‘rescue’ children or should we be trying to support unhappy families? What is really at the heart of our child protection system and adoption and...
by familoo | 12 Jun 2016 | cases, transparency
Suesspicious Minds has beaten me to it again, with a post about a case where The President has decided that it is right to hold a re-hearing of a fact finding following the directed acquittal of the parents in criminal proceedings in relation to the child’s...
by familoo | 28 Apr 2016 | transparency
Yesterday I participated in the Adoption Debate at the Bristol Civil & Family Justice Centre, hosted and chaired by His Honour Judge Wildblood QC, Designated Family Judge for the Bristol area. You can see a few tweets on #adoptiondebate, although in fact, due to...
by familoo | 23 Aug 2015 | transparency
Adoption statistics. Tricky topic. Makes my head hurt a bit. I have written a blog post on the Transparency Project about this issue, following a post by former MP John Hemming on the same. You can read it here.
by familoo | 1 Aug 2015 | cases, rants
Re W (Adoption- Reunification) [2015] EWHC 2039 (Fam) (22 July 2015) is an extraordinary decision of Ms Justice Russell. Extraordinary for a number of reasons. Firstly, because it is an example of a child aged 2 1/2 being returned to the care of a parent long...
