Posts Tagged ‘care proceedings’
Tips For Parents – Maintaining Your Mental Health During Care Proceedings
As a parent navigating the challenging process of care proceedings, it is crucial to prioritise your mental well-being. In this blog post, we will provide you with six valuable tips to help you maintain your mental health during this difficult time. 1. Seek Emotional Support: Problem: Care proceedings can be emotionally draining and overwhelming, often…
Read MoreWhat is a Child Protection Plan?
As a parent, you may find your child made subject to a Child Protection Plan by the local authority. But what is a Child Protection Plan, and what does it mean? Local authority’s duty to investigate To start at the beginning, the local authority has a duty to investigate where they have reasonable cause to…
Read MoreNew drive to speed up care proceedings
It is obvious that any court proceedings relating to the welfare of children should be dealt with as quickly as possible. This is recognised by the very first section of the Children Act, which states that: “In any proceedings in which any question with respect to the upbringing of a child arises, the court shall…
Read MoreFathers involvement in the justice system, record divorce award and new protections for abuse victims – June family law news roundup
Research looks at fathers in the family justice system A research partnership between the University of East Anglia and Lancaster University has provided new evidence about fathers’ involvement in care and recurrent care proceedings in England. The researchers analysed anonymised family court records for more than 73,000 fathers appearing in care proceedings between 2010/11 and…
Read MoreAre social services concerned about your care for your child/children?
Social services become involved with families for various reasons. Their role is to ensure children receive “good enough” care. Once social services are involved with your family you will be anxious that they may remove your child/children from your care. This is always a risk when social services have concerns about your standard of care…
Read MoreAre Social Services involved with your children?
Are Social Services involved with your family? if so, please watch this video.
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