CUTS WARNING IN FAMILY COURT DEBACLE

[Alison J Stevens]

The Family courts are at breaking point already, with the increase in Care Proceedings, after the Baby Peter tragedy and other Local Authority failings up and down the Country resulting in the death of vulnerable children, one local Authority decided to drop 500 cases, because they said they were not safeguarding the Children that needed protection, the question is should any of these Cases of been instigated in the first place, wasting the taxpayers and Solicitors fees on Public Law Legal Aid cases.
The backlog of Cases is due to the waiting list for Guardians , which in some parts of the Country, is as long as five months, once again leaving children at risk of abuse or even death and possibly in the majority of cases Parents being parted from their children for a longer time scale.
This Government is failing Children and Families on a large scale and is totally unacceptable.




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