BAILII – BAILII Databases

BAILII – BAILII Databases See on Scoop.it – Public Law Children Act Cases BAILII databases contain British and Irish case law, legislation and other materials (e.g. Law Commission Reports), and European case law. See on http://www.bailii.org Related articles The BAILII lecture: … Continue reading →

Foster Care

Foster Care

Foster care is the term used for a system in which a minor who has been made a ward is placed in the private home of a state certified caregiver referred to as a “foster parent”.  The state via the family court and child protection agency stand in loco parentis to the minor, making all legal decisions while the foster parent is responsible for the day to day care of said minor. The foster parent is remunerated by the state for their services.  Foster care is intended to be a short term situation until a permanent placement can be made:

• Reunification with the biological parent(s)
• When it is deemed in the child’s best interest. This is generally the first choice.
• Preferably by a biological family member such as an aunt or grandparent.
• If no biological family member is willing or able to adopt, the next preference is for the child to be adopted by the foster parents or by someone else involved in the child’s life (such as a teacher orcoach). This is to maintain continuity in the child’s life ~ Wikipedia
   

Family Law Courts

Family Law Courts Family matters are dealt with in the Family Division of the High Court, by district judges in County Courts and in Family Proceedings Courts. What Family Courts deal with Public law Private Law Adoption Marriage matters Domestic … Continue reading →

House of Commons Hansard Debates for 16 Oct 2012 #prison

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I want to decouple one other thing. The number of women who receive short sentences in any one year is a completely different figure from the female prison population at any one time.

waine-warren‘s insight:

78% of the total female prison population, are not serving short sentences for not-so-serious offences, as people would have us believe, but are serving much longer sentences for the most serious crimes.

The second myth: women are imprisoned for short sentences and not very serious offences.

The third myth is that women are often remanded in custody but then are not sentenced to custody. I have heard the misuse of many statistics over the issue of remand and female offenders, so I want to introduce the House to the facts. The Ministry of Justice’s own figures show that women are more likely than men to get bail. The figures are in “Statistics on Women and the Criminal Justice System” of November 2010:

“In 2009 80% of females were bailed, compared with 62% of males; 20% were remanded in custody compared with 38% of males. The percentage remanded for both males and females is at a five-year low.”

Those figures yet again back up the fact that more men than women are sentenced to custody. The document goes on:

“Of those remanded in custody, 66% of females were then sentenced to immediate custody in comparison with 75% of males.”

When people complain about women being more likely to be remanded in custody and then not sent to prison, it is solely due to women being treated more favourably when they are sentenced. It is not that they are more harshly treated when the decision is made to remand them in custody or give them bail. The figures are perfectly clear—it is yet another deliberate myth.

 

The fourth myth is that prison separates mothers from their children, which unfairly punishes them. It is said that 17,000 children are separated from their mothers 

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Character assassination – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Michael Doherty – #METPOLICE – Institutionally corrupt

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#METPOLICE – Institutionally corrupt – time for radical reform

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“Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.”
Zig Ziglar

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Northamptonshire County Council Fostering Service

Northamptonshire County Council Fostering Service

Who believe those children from troubled backgrounds must be placed in full time fostering.

© Godwell 2012-13

Brief description of the service

The fostering service is managed by the local authority. The range of fostering services includes time-limited, respite, long-term, permanent, kinship and family link fostering. The fostering service assesses, approves and provides on-going support to foster carers. The short breaks family link service for children with disabilities is managed within the disabled children’s service and has its own unique statement of purpose and function.

Norborough House
Coverack Close
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN4 8PQ

Telephone number: 01604 432550

This page has reports for inspections that happened before November 2013. From November 2013 we stopped doing individual inspections of local authority adoption agencies and fostering services. We now inspect local authority services for children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers. These inspections include local authority adoption agencies and fostering services. When published these inspection reports are available on the local authority’s page.

Social Services in the Northamptonshire area. Children, adult and Social Services. Political corruption is the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain.

via Ofsted | Northamptonshire County Council Fostering Service.

Fostering in the East Midlands

They  are preferred providers on the East Midlands contract.

News Update For The Family Court System

UNITED KINGDOM – This Friday many criminal justice lawyers will refuse to attend court across England and Wales in protest against cuts to legal aid cuts. A rally will gather outside parliament and march to the Ministry of Justice bearing a copy of the Magna Carta scroll, symbolising the threat to 800 years of British justice.

via News For The Family Court System.

Sir James Munby  accused  social workers of having a ‘slapdash’ and ‘lackadaisical’ attitude to court orders.

Edinburgh social workers facing jail are ‘a wake-up call’

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• Family Court System | Parents Rights Blog.
• Northampton Borough Council: Family Court System.

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Mark Adams Said The Revolution Will Be Televised

Mark Adams Said The Revolution Will Be Televised It is not that they do not know the rules.  These arrogant  people think it does not apply to them and play the tune that they are: confused, mistaken or unclear when helping … Continue reading →

Secret decision to remove

towardchange:

Mother has long-standing mental health problems and an IQ of 64. I have read a report from her treating psychiatrist. Her diagnosis is of paranoia and psychosis. She also abuses drugs. She is described as challenging, and she can be volatile. She has had two previous children, both of whom were removed from her very early in their lives. The elder was removed from her care in 2007 aged three weeks, when mother physically injured that child by causing twisting injuries to his arms and bruising to his chest. Both those children now live with those children’s father. She is now pregnant again, by a different father, with an estimated delivery date of 22nd September 2013.

Originally posted on suesspiciousminds:

(No, I’ve not asked Christopher Booker to do a guest blog, but this is a case which is worthy of attention, given how much press coverage the Italian C-Section case received. I am quite surprised that this made it through the Lord Nueberger view of article 8 and what the word necessary means in that context)

A Local Authority v C 2013

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2013/4036.html

This is unusual, because it is an application that the Local Authority made BEFORE the birth of the child. I have only ever seen one of these before, the one referred to in the judgment Re D 2009.

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Chronic Child Neglect

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Chronic Child Neglect Neutral Citation Number: [2013] EWHC 734 (Fam) Case No: MW11C00060 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE FAMILY DIVISION SITTING AT MAIDSTONE COUNTY COURT  via God’s Children. Background ABSTRACT The family are Roma Slovakian. The parents were brought up … Continue reading →

Judicial Conduct

Judicial Conduct via Law Commission And Misconduct in Public Office. Status: We have carried out preliminary work on this project.  We will commence work on a consultation paper in early 2014.  We aim to open the consultation in late summer 2014 … Continue reading →