Child Protection Planning Part 3 – What happens after the meeting? 15th May 2015 In our final blog on the child protection process, Ilke Hatter, Trainee Legal Executive, looks at the child protection plan […] Categories: Children, Domestic Abuse
Court orders surrogate mother to hand baby to gay couple 11th May 2015 There has been a call for the rules surrounding surrogacy to be clarified and tightened up, after a woman who […] Categories: Children, Legal Aid, News
New guidance available to help victims of domestic violence or child abuse 14th April 2015 New guidance is now available to help victims of child abuse or domestic violence, to help them discover if they […] Categories: Children, Domestic Abuse, Support & Resources
Figures reveal seven grandparents seek court orders every day 10th March 2015 Justice Minister Simon Hughes has revealed in a parliamentary written answer how every day in 2013/14 seven sets of grandparents […] Categories: Children, Grandparents, News
What are the effects of separation on a child’s emotions? 10th March 2015 Children see separation in a different way to their parents. For parents, the separation often does not come out of […] Categories: Children, Divorce & Separation
MoJ says family law hearings shorter when neither party represented 7th January 2015 The Ministry of Justice has published what it is calling ‘experimental statistics’ showing family law cases are concluded more quickly […] Categories: Children, News
Support fund of £19m set up for adoptive families 2nd January 2015 A new adoption support fund worth £19 million is to be rolled out across the UK from May. The news […] Categories: Adoption, Children, News
Adoption – A quicker, easy process? 3rd November 2014 National adoption week is a good opportunity to reflect on the issues currently being discussed with regard to adoption. Nationally […] Categories: Adoption, Children
Father cleared of abuse wins care of daughter 31st October 2014 A father cleared of sexually abusing his daughter has won the right to the day to day care of the […] Categories: Children, Domestic Abuse, News
Education Supervision Orders – Another Option? 22nd September 2014 Recently we’ve been reading stories all too often about how parents are being taken to court and fined for failing to ensure […] Categories: Children