When you think children aren’t listening
21st March 2016Every parent becomes frustrated when they think their children aren’t listening. Many spend every morning telling children umpteen times to: […]
Child Protection Planning Part 3 – What happens after the meeting?
15th May 2015In our final blog on the child protection process, Ilke Hatter, Trainee Legal Executive, looks at the child protection plan […]
Court orders surrogate mother to hand baby to gay couple
11th May 2015There has been a call for the rules surrounding surrogacy to be clarified and tightened up, after a woman who […]
New guidance available to help victims of domestic violence or child abuse
14th April 2015New guidance is now available to help victims of child abuse or domestic violence, to help them discover if they […]
Figures reveal seven grandparents seek court orders every day
10th March 2015Justice Minister Simon Hughes has revealed in a parliamentary written answer how every day in 2013/14 seven sets of grandparents […]
What are the effects of separation on a child’s emotions?
10th March 2015Children see separation in a different way to their parents. For parents, the separation often does not come out of […]
MoJ says family law hearings shorter when neither party represented
7th January 2015The Ministry of Justice has published what it is calling ‘experimental statistics’ showing family law cases are concluded more quickly […]
Support fund of £19m set up for adoptive families
2nd January 2015A new adoption support fund worth £19 million is to be rolled out across the UK from May. The news […]
Adoption – A quicker, easy process?
3rd November 2014National adoption week is a good opportunity to reflect on the issues currently being discussed with regard to adoption. Nationally […]
Father cleared of abuse wins care of daughter
31st October 2014A father cleared of sexually abusing his daughter has won the right to the day to day care of the […]