Jill Kirby, Director of the Centre for Policy Studies writes a piece in the Opinion section of Wednesday’s Times entitled ‘It’s not hard to spot the children really at risk’. Self evidently it is a little harder than we would like to think or we wouldn’t have had to add Baby P to a long list of other [...]
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Protecting All Children – jus’ like that
Posted in stuff, tagged baby p, child abuse, child protection, family law on August 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Fear or Favour
Posted in stuff, tagged child abuse, child protection, family on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Camilla Cavendish writes an excellent article about (amongst other things) the tendency towards back-covering in child protection and the consequent fear of professionals that many good parents now have. She is right – I am anxious each time I take my son to the GP for a routine appointment that whatever minor knock or scrape he may [...]
Laming Report Published
Posted in stuff, tagged child abuse, child protection, family, family law on March 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Lord Laming’s Report in the wake of the Baby P tragedy was published this week. It can be found here. Of particular relevance to family lawyers Lord Laming recommends an urgent review of the £4,000 fees for the issue of care proceedings and that steps should be taken to reduce the average case length in [...]
Baby P Sacking Legal Actions Commence
Posted in stuff, tagged care, child abuse, child protection, family law, legal news on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sharon Shoesmith has commenced not one but two legal actions in connection with her dismissal from Haringey over the Baby P case – judicial review and employment tribunal, the Guardian reports.
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