Government Launches Innovation Portal

The Innovation Launch Pad offers small and medium enterprises a forum to pitch their cost efficiency ideas to deliver public services.

The Innovation Launch Pad is part of a package of measures, announced in February by the Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Francis Maude, to open-up the public sector marketplace to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

The portal is accepting business proposals between Monday 28 March and Friday…

Improving Futures Workshop

The Big Lottery Fund has launched a new funding stream called Improving Futures and VAL will be supporting voluntary groups to identify a proposal to go forward from this area.

The programme focuses on improving the futures of families with ‘multiple and complex problems’, whose eldest child is between 5 and 10 years old. The maximum award for this programme is £900,000 but only 20 bids will be successful across the country, and there will only one…

http://www.cypnow.co.uk/Social_Care/article/1064670/report-raises-concerns-staff-awareness-duties-child-immigration-detainees/

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http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/04/01/116604/munro-debate-social-workers-need-time-not-new-interventions.htm

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-care-the-big-picture/2011/04/good-management-crucial-to-implementing-munro-ideas.html

Tim Loughton: social workers must be debriifed

Children in care - The Department for Education.

 

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Children in the care of local authorities are one of the most vulnerable groups in…

Practice Guidance 7TH APRIL 2011

Practice Guidance

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Practice Guidance

Family Procedure Rules 2010 Forms - C60 Certificate referred to in Article 39 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2201/ 2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning judgments on parental…

Practice Guidance

Family Procedure Rules 2010 Practice Directions - Full List

2011-03-30 11:45:00 UTC

The Family Court Practice 2011 contains all the essential materials and commentary you need to ensure you are fully equipped to comply with the new...

In addition to the updates to our main publications, Family Law has put together an online navigation package comprising the rules, practice directions and forms plus destination and derivation tables and a succinct guide. It's available now, free to existing Family Law Online subscribers, or at a cost of £30 to non-subscribers. For more information,…

Missing memory stick found in Leicester council worker's lunch bag

Leicester City Council faces a fine of up to £500,000

The father's view: Claire's ex-husband's side of the story

It's hard not to feel sympathy for Claire's plight. Unless, perhaps, you are the aggrieved party across the Atlantic.

"I don't have any pity for her," says Patrick's US attorney, Michael E Damico, speaking on his client's behalf.

Claire fears she may not see her children for an awfully long time. Not true, corrects the formidable Mr Damico.

"She may never see her children again. That's her decision to…

The loving mother hunted by FBI

By adam wakelin

Claire McNulty kissed the ground when they cleared passport control. Actually physically bent down and kissed Birmingham Airport's Tarmac.

"I really did do that," she says. "My kids were like, 'What are you doing Mum?' I was just so glad to be home."

It had all been so easy. Or so it had seemed on that bright, hope-filled early morning…

Mum faces 10 years in American jail after abducting her own children

Claire McNulty

By adam wakelin

An anguished mum could face 10 years in an American jail for illegally bringing her three children to Leicestershire.

Claire McNulty is accused by US authorities of illegally…

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Review of Children’s Cases Regulations 1991

http://www.familylaw.co.uk/system/uploads/attachments/0002/1987/a64_1205.pdf

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Children Act 2002