I’m a bit slow off the mark this week but I do want to report this: Lord Justice Wall has been widely reported as criticising social workers for being “arrogant and enthusiastic removers of children from their parents”. It doesn’t look as if he will be a wallflower of a President, does it? . In [...]
Posts Tagged ‘care’
O-VER-LOAD! [Dalek voice effect]
Posted in courts, resources, tagged CAFCASS, care, care proceedings, child protection, courts, family justice system, family law, guardian, resources on June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Guardian reports that 7% of CAFCASS Guardian appointments in care cases are unallocated. That is 653 of a total of 9060 cases. The only surprise there is that the figure for unallocated cases is so low. You can’t get a Guardian for love nor money round these here parts, and Judges have all but [...]
Care System
Posted in cases, tagged care, cases, family law, foster care, residential care home on April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Interesting article in the Guardian today about the care system and in particular residential care homes, drawing out some of the issues raised in the House of Commons Children Schools & Families Committee Report which I have linked to in a brief post on the FLW Blog. Unfortunately I haven’t had time to fully digest [...]