These are the latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:
- ‘Substituted parenting’ risk used to justify removing children without evidence base, finds study
- Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill receives Royal Assent
- Latest Guide to Britain’s Family Court Statistics
ian josephs said:
YES of course “removal must not be based on conjecture” ! But all removals based on risk are by definition based on future conjecture.Therefore children should NEVER be removed for mere risk as future predictions are nearly always wrong .That was the case before the Children Act 1989 introduced the taking of children deemed “likely to suffer significant harm” as previously they astually had to suffer harm to justify removal.
A police officer can arrest you if you commit a crime but cannot arrest you merely because he/she thinks it likely that you will “commit a crime next year” The same principal should apply once again to child removal and all these predictions of risk in the future should be disregarded.
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