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  • September 22, 2013 - WALES/ENGLAND – Online Family Court Guide to public law proceedings published

  • June 30, 2013 - WALES/ENGLAND – Family Justice Council fears impact of legal aid reforms on public law cases

  • May 28, 2013 - ENGLAND – ‘Remove children from criminal families’, says Sheffield judge

  • May 26, 2013 - WALES/ENGLAND – Revised Public Law Outline comes into effect on 1 July 2013

  • April 20, 2013 - WALES/ENGLAND – Reforms must work, family division head warns

  • April 1, 2013 - WALES/ENGLAND – Average time for disposal of a care or supervision application is now 45 weeks

  • March 23, 2013 - WALES/ENGLAND – Family courts cuts will create ‘perfect storm’

  • March 18, 2013 - WALES/ENGLAND – Open up family court hearings, says senior judge

  • February 13, 2013 - ENGLAND – Social worker killed herself after restructure caused workload to increase

  • February 5, 2013 - UK – Children and Families Bill: ‘our utmost concern must always be the child’

  • February 5, 2013 - UK – Major reforms to support children and families

  • January 31, 2013 - WALES/ENGLAND – Reducing delays in family courts

  • January 23, 2013 - WALES/ENGLAND – Many public law child cases will not conclude within 26 weeks, magistrates warn

  • January 18, 2013 - WALES/ENGLAND – The Family Justice Board

  • January 7, 2013 - UK – Benefit cuts ‘will see more children taken into care’

  • September 28, 2012 - WALES/ENGLAND – Retirement of the President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice for England and Wales

  • July 16, 2012 - WALES/ENGLAND – Inquiry launched into government family justice reforms

  • June 8, 2012 - WALES – Family Justice Review: “How will a 26 week limit work when we don’t have capacity in the system?”

  • February 18, 2012 - ENGLAND – Family Justice System: Implementing the New Arrangements

  • February 8, 2012 - ENGLAND – Munro takes up College of Social Work role

  • February 6, 2012 - WALES/ENGLAND – Family Justice Review – Government Response

  • January 25, 2012 - WALES – Statement by the Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services: Progress on the Social Services Bill

  • January 25, 2012 - UK – Multi-Disciplinary Conference – to debate the Family Justice Review – Chaired by the Honourable Mr Justice Ryder

  • January 23, 2012 - UK – Social workers feel ‘powerless’ to intervene in child neglect cases, says Action for Children

  • January 20, 2012 - WALES/ENGLAND – Family law disputes fall in 2011

  • January 5, 2012 - UK – Facebook allows natural parents to track down adopted children, charities warn

  • January 5, 2012 - UK – College of Social Work opens for business

  • January 4, 2012 - UK – Munro leads New Year roll of honour in social care

  • January 3, 2012 - UK – Social Services Deliberate Destruction Of A Family

  • November 21, 2011 - WALES/ENGLAND – Communicating with the Home Office in Family Proceedings’

  • November 11, 2011 - WALES/ENGLAND – Self-Represented Litigants

  • November 3, 2011 - UK – Family Justice Review Published

  • October 9, 2011 - WALES/ENGLAND – Cameron’s sudden zeal for adoption misses the point

  • October 2, 2011 - WALES/ENGLAND – ‘No press interest in family court website trial’

  • September 27, 2011 - NW ENGLAND – Councils’ foster carer recruitment drive garners more than 3,000 responses

  • September 27, 2011 - ENGLAND – Kent children services ‘making progress’, report finds

  • September 6, 2011 - WALES/ENGLAND – File Reduction Trial

  • September 5, 2011 - SCOTLAND – Obese children to be put up for adoption

  • September 4, 2011 - ENGLAND – Hampshire foster children ‘sent up to 250 miles away’

  • September 4, 2011 - UK – Government announces further £6m provision for children in care and families in need of support

  • September 4, 2011 - ENGLAND – Elizabeth Watson purges contempt and is freed from Holloway

  • September 4, 2011 - ENGLAND – Children’s Legal Centre has joined children’s charity Coram

  • September 1, 2011 - UK – Ministerial adviser faces hostility over adoption reform report

  • August 30, 2011 - ENGLAND – £6m funding boost for new family intervention projects

  • August 27, 2011 - UK – Record number of care cases puts courts under strain

  • August 19, 2011 - WALES – Serious Case Review: agencies could not have predicted child stabbing

  • August 16, 2011 - WALES – Social services are on the right track make a difference

  • August 16, 2011 - UK – Social workers accused parents of bone disease baby of child abuse

  • August 16, 2011 - WALES – Pembrokeshire County Council’s culture of trust led to managers’ over reliance on what they were told in children cases

  • August 14, 2011 - UK – Social workers send girl aged six to live with her stepfather in the U.S. instead of her blood relatives in Britain

  • August 11, 2011 - ENGLAND – Care application demand remains at all-time high

  • August 11, 2011 - ENGLAND – British Association for Adoption & Fostering rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted

  • August 11, 2011 - ENGLAND – Hull council failed over child protection concern – report

  • August 8, 2011 - Court of Protection case to be reported in real time after landmark legal ruling

  • August 8, 2011 - Anglesey child policies ‘serious shortcomings’ – report

  • August 7, 2011 - No need for renewal of interim guidance, say Sir Nicholas Wall and Anthony Douglas

  • August 7, 2011 - Office of the Public Guardian calls for evidence on Deputies

  • August 6, 2011 - HM Government e-petitions

  • August 6, 2011 - ‘Child protection’ tears mother and son apart after 14 years

  • August 4, 2011 - CARE PROCEEDINGS: R v Cafcass [2011] EWHC 1774 (Admin)

  • August 3, 2011 - Allocation and continuity of case managers in the Family Proceedings Courts (Bulletin Number 4)

  • August 3, 2011 - President’s Interim Guidance won’t be formally renewed

  • August 2, 2011 - The Family Courts: Media Access & Reporting

  • August 1, 2011 - Foster carers at risk under government welfare reforms

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