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Tories promise family courts reform
This protest at Edward Timpson’s home in May led to a manifesto commitment on reform of the family courts The Conservative Party promised reform of the family courts in their manifesto following a...
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Judge finds father in contempt of court again
Canterbury Civil Court heard the case of contempt of court against Uegene Lukjanenko A father in dispute with Medway Council narrowly escaped jail for contempt of court in Canterbury County Court last...
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Bexley children finally go home
Four children wrongly taken into care by the London Borough of Bexley have finally gone home. Four children from a family rent apart by false allegations two years ago have finally gone home. In early...
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Medway Council took children because home ‘untidy’
Councillor Alan Jarrett, leader of Medway Council A local authority took two children into care because a house was ‘untidy’, a mother has told Christian Voice. And now, seven years later, Medway...
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Medway dispute Mother guilty of ‘contempt’
Maidstone County Court heard Medway’s case against the mother A mother in dispute with social services was found guilty yesterday of contempt of court. The case has not yet concluded so we shall refer...
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Medway Council’s Emotional Abuse
Medway Council took Sara Root to Maidstone County Court for contempt. A mother who says her two youngest children were wrongly taken into care by Medway Council was given a six-month suspended prison...
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Southampton heads adoption lottery
Southampton City Council heads the adoption lottery Research into adoption and care rates has revealed a postcode lottery. Children in some areas in England are 12 times more likely to be removed and...
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Family Court Restrictions: father ‘in contempt’
‘EL’ outside the court. Face obscured because Family Court rules forbid the identification of children or parents. A father fighting a local authority in the family court narrowly escaped jail for...
View ArticleSocial Services tell girls: ‘No Nightie? Wear my Tee-shirt!’
Two adolescent girls taken into care by a local authority’s social services had to sleep in their school uniforms, a court was told yesterday. District Judge Patrick Perusko, sitting in Milton Keynes...
View ArticleBucks County Council fails to bar the press
A local authority has failed in a bid to oust a journalist covering a child protection case in the family court. Buckinghamshire County Council (leader Cllr Martin Tett, left) initially raised no...
View ArticleJudge rules Bucks girls can go home
A Family Court judge has ruled two children should go home after criticising a local authority for failing to admit that they were suffering emotional harm in its care. District Judge Patrick Perusko...
View ArticleWorcestershire loses adoption bid
By Stephen Green A local authority has lost its bid to put four children from a Christian home up for adoption. Sitting in Worcester Family Court in Worcester’s impressive old Shire Hall building, His...
View ArticleBexley opposes children’s return
By Stephen Green (Update 22nd November 2016: At the latest hearing yesterday, instead of agreeing to a plan to return the children forthwith, the local authority opposed it. There will now be a...
View ArticleJudge: ‘Not Guilty’ doesn’t mean ‘Innocent’
Update 22/09/2016: Click here for Council look anew at care case. A senior family court judge told a court last Friday (9th September 2016) that a ‘Not Guilty’ verdict in the criminal court did not...
View ArticleCouncil look anew at child care case
In legal cases what is said between advocates in a conference room is often as important as what happens in court. And so it proved on Wednesday last week (14th September 2016) at Walsall Family Court,...
View ArticleWalsall dither over child care case
P.S. (26th October 2016): Walsall’s barrister, Mr Richard Hadley, today undertook to complete his examination of all the evidence by next week. He gave Mr Justice Keehan, sitting in the High Court in...
View ArticleWalsall Children Go Home!
Three children taken into care by Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council on the strength of a false allegation of sexual abuse were returned home yesterday. Walsall’s decision to return the children came...
View ArticleFather fighting Medway Council faces jail for contempt
Medway Council is asking a court to jail a father for contempt of court after he posted a picture of his in-care son online. Medway Council took son into care Canterbury Family Court heard the father,...
View ArticlePrayer needed for a family
Please pray that a baby taken into care by Social Services because the parents expressed misgivings over the neo-natal Hepatatis vaccine will be returned home The post Prayer needed for a family first...
View ArticleSuicide: Family and foster parents at odds over 15-year-old’s funeral...
Suicide: Family and foster parents at odds over 15-year-old's funeral arrangements The post Suicide: Family and foster parents at odds over 15-year-old’s funeral arrangements first appeared on...
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