Following the recent closure of the British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), the Welsh government is taking measures it hopes will maintain and improve… Read More »Welsh Government Introduces New Fostering and Adoption Measures
The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) has closed with immediate affect removing one of the key organisations involved in campaigning for children in… Read More »British Association for Adoption and Fostering Closed
Both Jersey and Guernsey have decided to drop laws that prevented same sex couples from adopting children. Guernsey decided that its adoption law, which was… Read More »Channel Islands Drop Same Sex Adoption Restrictions
Re R (No Order for Contact: Appeal) [2014] EWCA Civ 1664 At the final hearing of the father’s application for contact in 2012, a CAFCASS… Read More »Father’s appeal against an order for no contact with his daughter allowed.
The Children and Families Act 2014 (the Act) came into force on 22 April 2014. On 22 October 2014 section 11 of the Act will… Read More »Presumption of parental involvement comes into force on 22 October 2014
In a recent study published by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner and the charity The Children’s Society it has been claimed that there are… Read More »The potential effects of alcohol misuse on children
As we have discussed in previous blogs, there seems to be a recent trend amongst parents who agree that legal separation or divorce is best… Read More »As we Have Discussed Previously…
If you are in a situation where you want to get a declaration of parentage because your name is not on your child’s birth certificate,… Read More »Declaration of Parentage