I’m a bit slow off the mark this week but I do want to report this: Lord Justice Wall has been widely reported as criticising social workers for being “arrogant and enthusiastic removers of children from their parents”. It doesn’t look as if he will be a wallflower of a President, does it? . In [...]
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Social Workers: Arrogant and Enthusiastic Removers of Vegetarians?
Posted in stuff, tagged care, family courts, family justice system, legal aid on April 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
‘Don’t you lot EVER think about the kids?’
Posted in stuff, tagged adoption, care, children, family proceedings, guardian on October 9, 2009 | 14 Comments »
No, you are absolutely right. We have spent years acquiring expertise, passed up the opportunity to earn three times as much money in any other area of law you care to choose, regularly work into the night reading graphic details about head injuries and abuse and neglect, and spend 50% of our time telling our [...]
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 [...]
Care System
Posted in stuff, tagged care, family law, foster care, residential care home on April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Interesting article in the Guardian today about the care system and in particular residential care homes, drawing out some of the issues raised in the House of Commons Children Schools & Families Committee Report which I have linked to in a brief post on the FLW Blog. Unfortunately I haven’t had time to fully digest [...]
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