A free event organised by the Centre for Child and Family Justice (CFJ) and the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (FJO) will look at the preservation of family ties with children inside the care system.
The event, “Children in Care: Preserving Family Connections?” will look at new research from the UK and Australia focusing specifically on questions around family connections for children in care.
The programme includes sessions on trends and patterns relating to children and how they enter the care system in Australia and England; how contact and reunification between birth families and their children are dealt with in both countries; and alternatives to child removal.
There is a session at the end of the day which offers responses from birth parents too.
Attendees will be given a copy of the new rapid evidence review on Special Guardianship, published by the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, (which you can download here without having to attend the event).
The CFJ will also share updates on its upcoming events, Nuffield FJO plans and new research projects. (You can follow new projects as they are launched here).
The event is taking place on 19th September from 10am-5pm at Forrest Hills in Lancashire. The venue is located next to Lancaster University, the institution which currently runs the Centre for Child and Family Justice.
You can sign up for the day’s sessions on the CFJ’s Eventbrite page.
If you have any queries about the event, you can contact Chris Millan at chris.millan@lancaster.ac.uk.
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The problem with these organizations looking into how the system works and identifying problems is that nothing happens after they produce their reports etc. it would seem nobody in Govt is interested.
John Hemming as an MP took his concerns to Parliament over the past 10yrs but nothing ever came from it. the Govt intoduced Adoption score cards and thats why they dont want to look at the serious problems that have manifested from that. a scandal of fraudulent Adoptions could be very costly for the Govt and thats why they are ignoring the issue. but eventually the elephant in the room will keep getting bigger till it crushes them.
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there’s also a lot of information about how stealing children and destroying families is bad for children and parents from the “american indian adoptees” too, they’ve had problems with their information being taken down by mainstream and people being deplatformed just for speaking their truth.
one thing that’s different about the americans is some of them in the system are starting to make real changes, by arresting, charging, and actually going to trial instead of losing the evidence and dropping cases. bent judges are being imprisoned, and nonces in the system are being imprisoned. people who are just kidnapping children for stupid reasons end up in prison. unlike the uk and australian system where nothing ever changes.
all we seem to do is create a lot of groups, gather a lot of evidence of crimes and nothing changes. over a decade, the system gets worse, the crimes continue, another decade passes and nothing changes.
we need to assert our constitution in full and clean the rot out of the system. it’s the only way. these jury-less courts only mean one thing – injustice and the covering up of crimes committed by members of the establishment. hence why star chambers were made illegal under our constitution.
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There is always an alternative to kids going into care but social workers vary in their perceptions, attitudes & objectives. Keeping your child at home or not is dependent on where you live, the social worker & the local authority dealing with your case & other variables like foster care availability or case loads or if a social worker has something to prove. Its a lottery & the winners are the kids that get to stay at home or with there own family.
In time we will look back on how they dealt with child protection with incredulous disbelief & revulsion in much the same way as we look at Bethlem Royal Hospital most commonly known as Bedlam after its reincarnations. Hard to imagine Bedlam was considered home, a palace
for lunatics!
We don’t have to imagine how bad the care protection system we hear of its failings every day but little is changed because it caters for the people employed within, not for the children.
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