New guidance is now available to help victims of child abuse or domestic violence, to help them discover if they […]

Justice Minister Simon Hughes has revealed in a parliamentary written answer how every day in 2013/14 seven sets of grandparents […]

Children see separation in a different way to their parents.  For parents, the separation often does not come out of […]

The Ministry of Justice has published what it is calling ‘experimental statistics’ showing family law cases are concluded more quickly […]

A new adoption support fund worth £19 million is to be rolled out across the UK from May. The news […]

National adoption week is a good opportunity to reflect on the issues currently being discussed with regard to adoption. Nationally […]

A father cleared of sexually abusing his daughter has won the right to the day to day care of the […]

Recently we’ve been reading stories all too often about how parents are being taken to court and fined for failing to ensure […]

Under the Children Act 1989, a child is defined as “looked after” by the local authority, or as we more […]

It’s not only married couples who may create legal relationships with one another.  Although there is no such thing as […]