Whilst the Committee stage continues on 4 November when further amendments will be discussed, there are two provisional sittings for this stage scheduled, one on the 11th and the other on the 18th of November.
A quick recap on the purpose of the Bill is added below:
The Bill seeks to reform legislation relating to the following areas:
- adoption and children in care
- aspects of the family justice system
- children and young people with special educational needs
- the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England
- statutory rights to leave and pay for parents and adopters
- time off work for ante-natal care
- the right to request flexible working
And for anyone with enough digestive biscuits, you can check out all the related documents to the Bill, right here.
Researching Reform 
All this tinkering around is nothing but a bad joke. Abolish 1:-forced adoption2:-,punishment without crime,and 3:-all gagging orders and we might see something like justice for both parents and chidren.
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The raison d’etre of this bill, in 2012, was to implement shared residence which was promised in the 1989 Act but then vetoed by Dept of Health
“guidance” in 1990-91.
Once again the’ fat controllers’ of our lives have totally forgotton the orginal intention of the 2012 bill and have made a bee-line for their place in history by having an amendment adopted related to public law cases of neglenct and abuse. For the last 20 years these figures have been static despite many attempts to legislate.
Why not admit that legislation will not work and that it is ‘staff’ that will make the difference and then pay attenti0n to the much easier to solve ‘private’ law cases ?
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