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Tag: Childrens Services
‘Wholly inaccurate’ assessment delayed care proceedings for other children
A “wholly inaccurate” assessment of Poppi Worthington led to a 10-month delay before care proceedings were issued over other children in the family, it can be reported. Cumbria County Council
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Parents with learning difficulties lose fight against son’s adoption
Specialist family lawyers have raised fears about parents with learning difficulties being held to a “different and more onerous” standard of parenting. Their concerns have emerged in a senior family
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Changes to adoption law prioritise placing children ‘as quickly as possible’
Courts and councils will have to give top priority to adoption for children in care in the future, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has confirmed. The law is to be changed
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Resource: Assessing and supporting family and friends care – Practice Tool (2015)
Since the Children Act 1989 there has been increasing emphasis in UK law and policy on placing children requiring substitute care with family and friends, and the Children and Young
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Judge under fire for refusing to name council she criticised over care proceedings
A family court judge is under fire after refusing to name a council she had criticised over the way social services staff dealt with the father of a four-year-old girl
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Couple must share responsibility for daughter’s care with local authority
A couple can no longer have total parental responsibility for their disabled teenage daughter because of concerns about their attitude to social services staff, a family court judge has ruled.
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Judge hits at social services over boy cared for by paedophile relative
Social services staff have come under fire after a family court judge heard how a boy spent at least two years living with a relative who was a convicted paedophile.
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Completion times for family court care proceedings in Wales cut by more than half
The time it takes for a family court in Wales to decide whether a child should be placed in the care of a local authority has been cut by more
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Quarriers among charities sharing £12 million funding to tackle inequalities
Charities supporting children, families and adult learning have been awarded £12 million the Children’s Minister Aileen Campbell has announced. The money will be given to 116 voluntary organisations that tackle
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