Boy was moved from foster home after ‘rough handling’ complaint
A young boy taken from his parents’ care because social workers had sex abuse fears was moved from a foster home after a complaint about him being “roughly handled” by
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Baby Elsie ‘would still be alive if social services had not taken her’, say birth family
The birth family of Elsie Scully-Hicks have said she would “still be alive today” if she had not been removed from their care by social services. Matthew Scully-Hicks, 31, was
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Too many care practitioners guilty of applying traditional values to same-sex adoption
Increasing numbers of gay men and lesbians in Britain are adopting children or becoming foster carers. Latest figures show that there are now more than 20,000 children living in same-sex
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Family justice group produces guide to legal language for children and young people
A group that aims to improve children’s experiences of the family court system has produced a child’s guide to legal language. The Family Justice Young People’s Board says children embroiled
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Judge criticises council over placing baby girl at ‘risk of significant harm’
A family court judge has decided not to name a council she criticised over its handling of a case involving a baby girl now placed for adoption. Recorder Carly Henley
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Hampshire foster carer launches employment rights claim in landmark legal case
A foster carer is launching a claim over her employment rights in what could be a landmark legal case. Sarah Anderson, who is used by Hampshire County Council, argues that
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Woman with learning disability loses bid to keep children out of foster care
A woman with a “very significant learning disability” has lost the latest round of a fight over the care of her two children. Two Court of Appeal judges have backed
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Foster care couples home raided in connection with Parsons Green bombing suspects
Two men who were fostered by the same British couple are being questioned by police investigating the Parsons Green bombing, it has been claimed. An 18-year-old, understood to be suspected
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More than 85% of adults would not foster a child, charity’s survey finds
More than eight in 10 adults are unlikely to become foster carers, a charity said, warning of a fostering crisis. Over 85% of UK adults surveyed on behalf of Action
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Lord Chief Justice warns of family courts crisis over volume of social services applications
Family court judges have a crisis on their hands because council social services bosses are making more applications for children to be taken from the care of parents, the most
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