As part of its next phase, the Best Interests of the Child Review (BIC) is inviting services and organisations who are willing to assist families going through child protection proceedings to join the review as support partners.
The review, which was launched on World Children’s Day (20 November) last year, is parent-led and focuses on children’s social care through the eyes of the children going through the system.
The review will provide recommendations for proper evidence-based social work practice, within the framework of compassionate social work held to the highest standards, and delivered in a humane and supportive way, with its primary aim of keeping families together wherever possible.
The launch included the publication of a rights booklet, which offers families a point of reference for all the rights they and their children have going through the process, which they can enforce in law.
The booklet also includes links to relevant documents, files and legislation, as well as a glossary of terms and links to websites of organisations who offer help and advice for free.
The review team also offers support to parents and children through signposting assistance so that families can access the help they need.
As part of our promise to provide immediate help to families, we are launching a support service partnership with organisations offering free support and advice.
Organisations will be reviewed by the team to ensure that they meet our criteria: initiatives must offer a compassionate and professional service, offered free of charge to families.
Several organisations have already very kindly agreed to work alongside the review to support children and their families in this way, but demand for help is high and we would be delighted to hear from you if you would like to help.
Approved organisations will be featured on BIC’s My Support page. We also understand that some organisations led by parents may not wish to be featured on the site and we are more than happy to pass on your details discreetly.
The review would love to hear from you if you offer the following support or advice free of charge:
- Family law and legal aid guidance/ signposting/ legal advice (registered law firms, charities and pro bono units only for the last item)
- Advocates for children
- Support for SEND children
- Support for victims of Domestic Violence
- Support for parents going through family law proceedings
- Support for families experiencing homelessness/ the threat of homelessness
- Support for families in need for food, clothing, school uniform
If you would like to apply to be a support partner, we would love to hear from you. Please email the team at contactbicreview@gmail.com
Thank you from all of us at BIC.
Researching Reform 
Have you asked Birthrights to join? Some horrendous stories where SS tell a pregnant woman at 8 Weeks they will NOT take her baby at birth but change this at 36 weeks to they will take the baby at birth for adoption. They hound pregnant women who have NO autonomy over their body or pregnancy. SS insist on antenatal care irrespective of what the mother wants. They have enforced a police escort to hospital when Labour is established. The trauma is shocking and in breach of a pregnant woman’s human rights. Once the baby is delivered police and SS are allowed onto delivery suites and maternity wards to forcibly remove a new born baby? This is usually on the grounds of “potential future harm”. Women subjected to the severest form of punishment when no crime has been committed. Removing new born puppies from their mother before 6 weeks is illegal. you can be heavily fined and sent to prison for this but SS can remove a new born baby as before the placenta’s been delivered? A dog has more rights than a woman in this country. Birthrights need to be involved. Thank you.
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Thank you for the suggestion Maria. They’re very welcome to get in touch at the email address provided if they’d like to engage.
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I have emailed them to ask them to partner with you to help put an end to this horrific abuse of pregnant women and new mothers
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Really appreciated, thank you.
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How very sad …
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This shocking practice is sheer inhumanity….words fail me… it’s as bad as the Nazi concentration camps!!
How would any woman recover from this barbarity?
It beggars belief how low they will stoop to steal babies from these poor mothers.. my heart bleeds for them.
Not only should they be apologetic to the mother’s who had babies forcibly adopted years ago but this is still prolific NOW.
It has to stop!! Reform is long overdue.
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” A dog has more rights than a woman in this country.”
You are so right Maria, the Human rights violations by the SS are off the scale yet the Govt dont even want to look at it. even one of their own MPs Lucy Allan almost lost her Son to the SS when they tried to brand her an unfit mother. She knows all too well how corrupt the system is yet still no change from Downing st. could it be some of them have shares in adoption agencies. there has to be something behind why they dont want to touch this subject.
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I strongly suspect that SS tell pregnant women that they will not take their babies during the time it is still possible to go through the lesser agony of an abortion. Once this is no longer possible the truth comes out – as foster carer Cathy Glass states in her book ‘I Miss Mummy;’ a ‘family finder’ (i.e. adoption) social worker told her: “There is a shortage of healthy white babies” (for adoption.) I heard talk at the school gate about how they had adopted a 4 hour old baby – clearly wonderful for the adopters, who think only of their own desire, but utterly devastating for the mother.
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Posted on groups on Facebook
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NO child should be taken unless it has already suffered significant harm though violence or neglect by its parents……….
End of story……….
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Absolutely agree. Also should go through criminal court as abuse/neglect is a crime. SS must produce evidence and be cross examined in front of judge and jury. See how many parents keep their children then.
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At least 80% i would think.
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If the SS had to produce credible evidence there would probably be very very few children in ‘care’.
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My grandson is in foster care for 2 yrs now.
My daughter his mum killed her self in November 2021 💔
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I’m so incredibly sorry.
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Sorry to hear about your loss. if it was due to the removal of her child i think these type of SS driven tragedies should be on the BBC news.
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I would like to take part in this reform, I trained in early childhood studies, I have been through the court system for 7 years. Haven’t seen my daughter in nearly 3 years.
You cannot get an independent perspective from the very services that remove our children? I am sure I can recruit other families and children to take part?
Please see my case [edited] and that of many others on line? See the [edited] page or [edited] etc
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