These are the stories that we think should be front page news today:
- One in Five child deaths are preventable in the UK – that’s regardless of the resource problem.
- Family courts are unfair to litigants in person – Yes, try getting a McKenzie friend to help them…
- Majority of family courts miss 26 week target – We’d like to think that’s because they’re being meticulous, but it’s just not true.
Researching Reform 
http://dc64lm.hubpages.com/hub/lifeasafosterchild
life as a foster child from a foster child.
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http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/debateni/blogs/naomi-long/kincora-victims-of-boys-home-need-truth-in-inquiry-into-historical-child-abuse-30577775.html
The Woolf inquiry needs to investigate what happened at Kincora and why it was hushed up!
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11088124/Antidepressants-Parents-of-disabled-children-admit-to-extreme-anxiety.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11026149/Self-harming-in-young-teenagers-I-started-cutting-when-I-was-12.html
Its a shame that available money and resources are not being more evenly distributed to help all children rather than just focussed on taking children into care especially since most could be with family members that love and want them!
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Yes, I wish they would focus more on that too.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/11082130/Foster-care-sibling-separation-row-Id-hear-him-cry-out-for-his-brother-in-the-night.html
They show that of the 11,082 children with siblings placed in care between April 2013 and March 2014 (across 159 councils), around 3,598 were separated. That’s 32 per cent – or roughly, a third.
That is only one year!
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http://news.sky.com/story/1334021/sex-abuse-victims-jeer-rotherham-police-chief
Rotherham Inquiry
The sister of a young woman who was groomed and killed by her abuser in Rotherham has told under-fire Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright: “You let my sister be murdered”.
Laura Wilson was 17 when she was stabbed to death in 2010 by Ashtiaq Ashgar after revealing her relationships with both him and another Muslim man, Ishaq Hussein, to their families.
In a passionate and angry meeting Laura’s sister, Sarah Wilson, screamed at Mr Wright: “You let my sister be murdered. You let us be groomed… You should be out or dead.”
Ms Wilson told Mr Wright: “Alarm bells have been ringing since I was 11 years old.
“How can you sit there and deny everything you’ve done. You can’t even look at me.
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How awful.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754017/I-abused-choir-master-In-brave-haunting-account-TV-star-ex-MP-Gyles-Brandreth-reveals-years-abuse-endured-prep-school.html
Gyles Brandreth, author, TV personality and former Tory MP, was the target of vicious comments on Twitter in July after he appeared on a Radio 4 programme to discuss historic allegations of a paedophile ring at Westminster.
Among the unproven claims was a suggestion that his predecessor as MP for Chester, Sir Peter Morrison — a former Tory deputy chairman and Whip — was implicated in sexual abuse at the Bryn Estyn children’s home in Wrexham.
Brandreth’s denial that he had been aware of these rumours during the Nineties, when he was in Parliament, angered Twitter users who demanded: ‘What does Gyles have to hide? He should think about the victims for a change.’
His response here is both shocking and moving, as Brandreth, 66, reveals his own experience as a victim of child abuse at his boarding school, Betteshanger in Kent, more than 50 years ago.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11093627/Actress-Samantha-Morton-says-she-was-sexually-abused-in-childrens-homes.html
Samantha Morton, the Bafta and Golden Globe-winning actress has disclosed that she was sexually abused by residential care workers in children’s homes.
The actress, who spent much of her childhood in a succession of children’s homes in Nottingham, said she believes abuse was “rife” within the city’s children’s services.
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Just chanced upon the program on BBC2 at 11.25. Ireland’s Lost Children. It’s about the transatlantic adoption trade of the 1950s & 60s. Raises serious questions!!
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