Abolition of court fees in care proceedings deferred until April 2011

Directors of Children’s Services welcome abolition but are disappointed by delay

Authorities damned in abuse case

Dear friends 

 

It's with great despair that we have to advise you that the Family 

Court Judge in Swansea ruled yesterday that baby J is to be put forward 

for adoption and denied a life with his natural birth mother. 

 

His mother, M is obviously distraught having battled for 17 months to 

prove that she was more than a 'good enough' mother to care for her 

baby. 

The judge made several comments as to her decision but much of it was 

based on…

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The programme I work for is BBC Inside Out see www.bbc.co.uk/insideoutIt's a regional current affairs programme aired on BBC 1 at 7.30pm on

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Plans for enhanced access to family courts by media threaten children’s wellbeing, says Children’s Commissioner

New research published revealing children's views

Children and young people's concerns about the Government's proposal to allow the media to report more widely on family court proceedings are

revealed in new research undertaken by the University of Oxford and

published last week by the Children's Commissioner for England, Dr

Maggie…

The head of child services in Kent has blamed "human error" after it emerged a social worker was warned about a man who went on to kill his baby daughter.

Christopher Sellman, 25, was found guilty of the manslaughter of 25-day-old Tiffany on Tuesday.

Rosalind Turner, of Kent County Council, said a family member had told a social worker that Sellman's partner was pregnant but it was not logged.

She apologised and said it was a regrettable case of…

An extra £23m is to be put into front-line social work, Children's Secretary Ed Balls has announced.

Summaries of official inquiries into the most serious cases of child abuse in England will be clearer, he added.

These were part of a package of measures he unveiled, a year after Lord Laming's review into child protection in the aftermath of the Baby P

case.

But the Conservatives said Serious Case Reviews should be published in full and Mr…

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Broken child protection

SIR – It has come as no surprise to us that more children are being taken into care since the Baby P case (report, March 7). Over the past year, our

caseload has increased substantially as parents and carers seek our advice

and support when falsely accused of abusing their children.

It is apparent that many of these cases are knee-jerk reactions to instances where there has been no abuse at all. The unfortunate outcome in…