The latest court reform event, which enables child protection professionals to learn more about the modernisation programme for the family courts in England and Wales, invites people to send in questions about the proposed changes.
But the event invite does not extend to service users, whose input is arguably the most important, and says “the session is aimed at local authorities, legal professionals, professional court users (judges and lawyers) and the third sector”, so this site is encouraging families and children to submit questions instead.
The invitation, which doubles up as a registration portal, explains that the webinar will offer insight into the court system’s work modernising the system so far. The session will also provide updates on the latest changes made, which include tests carried out on a new digital process allowing local authorities to make applications for care and supervision orders online.
The new processes were tested at the start of 2019, with a few local authorities and family courts. The invite says the pilots involved working closely with local authorities, CAFCASS/CAFCASS Cymru, the judiciary and “people involved in the family courts”, though it is not clear whether this group includes families and children with family court experience.
During the event, viewers will be able to submit questions and the presenters will then answer a selection of questions in real time. However, questions can also be emailed in advance, to changesomethingthatmatters@justice.gov.uk.
The services that are being tested are set to be rolled out across the whole of England and Wales in the new year.
For anyone unable to watch the webinar on the day, the session will be recorded.
The online event takes place on Thursday January 23, 2020 from 1pm-2pm.
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Of course they don’t want input from service users, they want to continue to exploit them. They need them & their offspring to feed this extremely corrupt money making business. They want to work out how to break up families more efficiently, not keep them together supporting them until their crisis passes. None of them take responsibility for the fallout of what happens afterwards. Any issues that arise create more opportunities to exploit in the following years.
Mark my words, new processes will bypass the need for people’s presence in court as it will become a fully online experience. It makes no difference really to the families as it’s a foregone conclusion the children will be removed from the families regardless of any argument. This will just speed things up.
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Dana nothing will change far two many in the child trade that earn a good living. Lies, and liars win the day.
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Forced adoptions-Secret family Courts- Babies snatched at birth for future risk- Protesting parents jailed if named on line- Children in care gagged and isolated-FREE SPEECH suppressed
Yes it can happen in Britain……… and Yes it is happening !
1:-Thousands of children each year are taken from parents by judges and social workers in SECRET Family Courts .Relatives and friends are routinely forbidden to enter the court.Accredited journalists can now attend but are forbidden to publish names of local authorities or parents and cannot publish any dialogue spoken in the court.Consequently they rarely bother to come!
2:-Parents are jailed for contempt of court if they reveal details of family court proceedings or protest publicly identifying themselves;FREE SPEECH IS SUPPRESSED as is the democratic right of peaceful protest.Family courts GAG “difficult” parents by making orders forbidding them to discuss their cases with anyone except solicitors for 18 years after their babies have been taken .They are also frequently forbidden via court injunction under the threat of jail from putting any information about their children or themselves on facebook or on line !Free speech in democratic UK is eliminated by Family Courts supposedly to protect the privacy of the babies but in reality to prevent parents complaining about perceived injustices when their babies and young children are taken and confiscated.
3:-Babies are taken at birth for “risk of future emotional harm”.Families are broken up solely on the basis of “predictions of the future” made in court by social workers and/or psychologists.We all suffer some degree of emotional harm in our lives but none of us can know with any certainty when it will happen or what form it will take.
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Ive come off facebook and twitter , why? Because ive revealed so much fraud and corruption in over 7 years in social services even the NHS and its got no where. Im affraid corruption rules and i cant beat it alone. When a family court solicitor that has never been to law school ends up being a rejisterd family court solicitor , i even conplained SRA to no avail, even this solicitors company never excisted legally SRA stated they closed his bussiness down?? You cant close down a bussiness that dont legaly excist. I give up.
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I am a single parent and can’t afford legal and I can’t defend my case???
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Thats the way its planned out, no one legally to defend you, its like lambs to the slaughter.
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Sra should have stated, once the fake solicitor company was uncoverd they moved in to remove papers and files with the view of a criminal prosicution , as well as informing the MET Police of this corrupted set up.
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Essex area many i investigated i found had links to certain areas of london side Essex, Companies house rejister of companies in this area was full of many false names, false claims of being a nurse, midwife, solicitor, social worker, even a scientist of what i dont know, the favourite claim was Accountant, but i did find out you need no qulifications to claim yourself as an accountant. If no offical goverment body dosent put rules and real criminal laws into companies house, then the bogus locum social worker will be hired by unaware local authority council, through that corrupt listed ltd company advertizing its self as a social worker or Nurse supply company. It needs Goverment to take the bull by the horns, ive done my bit investigating this corruption that puts people at risk of harm or injustice. You can take a horse to water but you cant make it drink!!
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