Making sure granny gets her pocket money

Yet another reminder that kinship carers are entitled to equality of treatment when compared other types of foster carers - the Local Government Ombudsman has just published a report relating to an instance of discriminatory treatment by way of a refusal to make the same payments available to kinship carers as were available to other [...]

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Family Units

Carol Sarler wrote a piece in The Times yesterday in which she questions the proposition that children need a father. She is clearly supportive of non-traditional family units, including same-sex two parent couples and rightly so.
The thrust of what she says is: that the modern notion of the role of a father is just that - a [...]

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Flying Carpets and Turkish Delight

I am flabbergasted at this story.
In summary a well respected High Court Judge in the Family Division has been roundly condemned by the Court of Appeal for making a string of remarks which were pointedly referring to the ethnic origin of one of the parties, namely a wealthy Sheikh. Mr Justice Singer has publicly apologised, [...]

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religious discrimination claim by hairdresser

A muslim hairdresser is suing a salon who refused her employment on the basis of her refusal to uncover her head. See the story in the Standard here.
Not wishing to be flippant about discrimination - but frankly, the barnets of most hairdressers I have ever seen are the primary source of my complete distrust of the whole lot [...]

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