The latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:
- Research: Not Just Collateral Damage – The Hidden Impact of Domestic Abuse on Children (Barnardo’s)
- Report: Monitoring the Mental Health Act (Care Quality Commission)*
- Complaints: New children and education decisions (Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman)
*For information about children in the report, press Control/ Command + F and enter the word child in the search bar.
Researching Reform 
Trouble is that people are detained by force without being able to call their own doctors or careers to say that detention was not necessary or desirable !
This happens too often and can result in a house being sold and bank account being blocked and then looted to pay unwanted lawyers and dubious care homes……….
A very sane 94 year old widow was robbed like that by the official solicitor who had the cheek to inform this retired midwife that he could no longer represent her as her savings of 75,000 pounds had been all used up in paying his fees and those of the so called court of protection!
The judge banned her from talking to the press or going public !
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