April 2011 Blog Posts (260)

HSE says 27 children died whilst in state care in the last year

http://www.thejournal.ie/hse-says-27-children-died-whilst-in-state-care-died-in-the-last-year-115341-May2011/

Added by Alison J Stevens on April 6, 2011 at 18:08 — No Comments

Family Law Week's Budget Briefing

http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed81457

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COMMUNITY CARE PODCAST 4TH MARCH

http://communitycare.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-03T09_36_38-08_00

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Community Care podcast: 11 March 2011

Community Care podcast: 11 March 2011
http://communitycare.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-10T10_22_31-08_00

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JAMES BULGER IS ALLOWED TO GO ON HOLIDAY

The mother of murdered toddler James Bulger has spoken of her fury after it emerged that one of his freed killers was allowed on an unsupervised holiday abroad. Skip related content

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Community Care podcast: 18 March 2011

Community Care podcast: 18 March 2011
http://communitycare.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-18T06_07_37-07_00

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COMMUNITY CARE PODCAST 25TH MARCH 2011

http://communitycare.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-24T10_39_45-07_00

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COMMUNITY CARE PODCAST 1ST APRIL 2011

http://communitycare.podomatic.com/entry/2011-04-01T08_13_23-07_00

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Combined Media Statement on Proposed Changes to Australia’s Family Law Act

Recently I posted a piece on the proposal to amend Australia’s Family Law Act submitted by Attorney General Robert McClelland. Below is the media release on the proposal issued by several organizations interested in family law, parents and children. Note: at the 11th hour, Mr. McClelland altered his proposal to keep the “friendly parent” provision in the law. The media release was prepared before that…

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SERIOUS CASE REVIEWS IN THE NEWS

Serious Case Review: Abuse of autistic boy went unnoticed

Serious Case Review: Ex-offender could have been stopped…

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Government's child poverty strategy unveiled

http://www.cypnow.co.uk/Childcare_and_Early_Years/article/1064062/governments-child-poverty-strategy-unveiled/

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Child Protection Publications

Safeguarding Children and Young People: roles and competences for Healthcare Staff (866KB, 2010) Updated version of the 2006…

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Moving Cafcass to MoJ could dilute social care focus, says College

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/04/01/116600/college-of-social-work-critical-of-proposed-cafcass-move.htm

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Public backs compulsory mediation assessments

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/public-backs-compulsory-mediation-assessments

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Family Procedure Rules

The new Family Procedure Rules come into force on 6th April 2011. The Court Forms and Leaflets below support the new rules and are provided here for preview. As solicitors will be aware, these forms must not be used for any proceedings issued before 6th April 2011. This web link is being made available to the profession to assist with preparations for…

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Family lawyers gear up for introduction of the Family Procedure Rules on 6th April

Rules, PDs, forms, podcast and article available from the Family Law week website

As all family lawyers will know, the Family Procedure Rules come into force on the 6th April.

The Rules can be accessed from here, the Practice Directions from…

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Family Procedure Rules 2010

An introduction to the new Family Procedure Rules 2010 presented by David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills and Reeve presents (Running time approx 45 minutes: CPD 2 hours)

Presented by David Salter, Partner and…

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THE VICTORIA COLUMBIE INQUIRY-LORD LAMING

http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_110711.pdf

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Bad Mothers: the politics of blame in twentieth-century America, NYU Press.

Ladd-Taylor, M. & Umansky, L. eds 1995 Bad Mothers: the politics of blame in twentieth-century America, NYU Press.…

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CHILDREN PUBLIC LAW UPDATE APRIL 2011

In this update on public law issues I will deal with the following areas:

Post-adoption contact
Findings of fact issues
Breach of professional guidance

Post-adoption contact

In Re B (A Child) (11th March 2011) (References: LTL 11/3/2011 EXTEMPORE Document No.: Case Law - AC950186) the Court of Appeal were considering an application by a Mother for permission to apply for a contact order to her son who had been…

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Added by Alison J Stevens on April 4, 2011 at 23:30 — No Comments