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Very moving article by David Batty about being adopted. theguardian.com/society/2026…
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Depriving children’s of their liberty - update to post following the Supreme Court’s ‘seismic’ rejection of Cheshire West childprotectionresource.onli…
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Important discussion from @ebswa about gender identity and foster care podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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May 22
How England’s vulnerable children became a gold mine for investors via @FT
Excellent piece by @smyth_chris on private children’s homes now charging up to £3m a year to house children in care. giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…
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At an interesting conference!
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So where do these children go? They can’t go home. The state won’t provide appropriate housing for children in care. But once again it is the fault of the social workers.
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Tusla moving child from hotel to hotel described as ‘unbelievable and outrageous’ by judge – The Irish Times irishtimes.com/crime-law/cou…
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Apr 23
Surrogacy - the basics. Changes in society often resonate first in the family courts. Important to think of wider contexts and concept of legal parents.
The concept of parenthood is dynamic. Legal parenthood relates to 2 people only. Parental responsibility very different.
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Apr 22
In the matter of X and Y (Children: Adoption Order: Setting Aside) [2026] UKSC 13: Appeal by adoptive mother against decision that the court has no power to set aside a validly made adoption order, other than by way of appeal. Appeal dismissed. supremecourt.uk/cases/judgme…
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How gender identity has corrupted the care system
Policy Exchange - In Absentia Parentis policyexchange.org.uk/public…
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It is not of course the issue of unregulated experts that caused these cases to go badly awry - but it can’t have helped. 77 of us wrote in protest about their use in 2019 - we were ignored.
Feb 28
Parental Alienation: The Modern Way shar.es/agImz3
But I do wonder what would have happened if my open letter had been taken seriously in 2019. Perhaps it would have helped in this case and the others cited, to prevent them going so firmly off the rails and the impacts of those court decisions reverberating through many years. My only reassurance in this is that my instincts are sound. Any person who ought to be subject to external regulation but refuses, is someone to treat with extreme caution, and certainly not someone who should ever be paid to provide reports to the Family Court.
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I wrote about this in 2019, sent an open letter to the president signed by May others. We were ignored.
No unregulated expert should be any where near a family court.
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Feb 21
Important Judgment in a Family Case - from the most senior judge. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov… He says it's "about the failure of the whole process... undertaken in a manner which is now to be seen as fundamentally unsound" .
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Feb 16
Important decision by the most senior judge in the Family Court - a teenage boy is allowed to return to his mother, overturning a "draconian" decision made by lower court 6 years before. A psychologist claimed the mother had alienated the children from their father. They then had to live with him....theguardian.com/law/2026/feb…
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How can adoption survive when most adopted children will have suffered significant harm and loss, and there are limited resources to support adoptive parents? The legal fiction is no longer sustainable.
The UKSC decision in X v Y will be interesting.
The death of adoption | Child Protection Resource tinyurl.com/yy6e4jfw
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This writer - like so many others - shows she knows nothing of childhood. Odd considering that she has had ‘lived experience’ of this state. As do we all.
To suggest that giving children ‘genuine agency’ in contested proceedings between their parents is a solution (or when deciding whether to sterilise themselves) is as cruel, stupid and pointless as demanding my dog cook me a roast dinner.
But I agree that court isn’t the place for frightened or angry parents. But where else do they go, once their ‘agency’ has been overwhelmed by emotion?
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Once post adoption direct contact with birth families was admitted, the status of adoption as an unassailable legal fiction crumbles. And many would agree that’s the right outcome. charlesrussellspeechlys.com/…
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Jessica Bradley v CM & Ors Neutral Citation Number[2026] EWHC 125 (Fam): Apps by journalist for access to documents on the court file in four private family law cases, and for permission to publish contents of certain documents. Apps largely allowed. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov…
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Children and parents speak up about the Pathfinder in private law – new research published | The Transparency Project transparencyproject.org.uk/c…
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