News just in from the FLBA: The Report from Francis Plowden – the Review of Court Fees in Child Care Proceedings – was published yesterday. Francis Plowden recommends (unsurprisingly?) abolition of fees for Local Authorities bringing child care proceedings. The Government has accepted this recommendation, and will implement it in April 2011 alongside the next three-year funding settlement [...]
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Well – DUUR!!
Posted in stuff, tagged courts, children, child protection, family justice system, care proceedings on March 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Unintended Consquences
Posted in stuff, tagged care proceedings, public funding, public law outline on December 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I had an interesting chat the other day with a child’s solicitor about one of the unintended consequences of the public law outline, with its emphasis on pre-proceedings assessment and meetings. Children’s solicitors are really a niche within a niche. However, now that parents are able to instruct solicitors prior to the issue of proceedings in order [...]
Mother Acquitted of Shaking Baby to Apply to Discharge Care Orders
Posted in stuff, tagged care proceedings, criminal, family law, removal on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fatimah Miah is a mother recently acquitted of the charge of manslaughter in relation to her baby son who died in May 2007. The Telegraph reports here that she is to make an application to the High Court for the return of the baby’s three siblings who are now in care. . Of course the [...]
O-VER-LOAD! [Dalek voice effect]
Posted in stuff, tagged CAFCASS, care, care proceedings, child protection, family justice system, family law, guardian on June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Guardian reports that 7% of CAFCASS Guardian appointments in care cases are unallocated. That is 653 of a total of 9060 cases. The only surprise there is that the figure for unallocated cases is so low. You can’t get a Guardian for love nor money round these here parts, and Judges have all but [...]
The Economics of Dysfunction
Posted in stuff, tagged adoption, care proceedings, counselling, family court system, parenting, therapy on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It frustrates me that, whilst care proceedings are sometimes a spur for parents to recognise the significance of their own past experience, personal issues and their pressing need for therapy to enable them to parent better and to lead more productive fulfilled lives, there is often no route through to achieve these goals because of ‘resource issues’. As [...]
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