“Prime minister announces shakeup of rules, including moves to make it easier for white parents to adopt black children.”
The Guardian, 9th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Local authorities in England will only get an outstanding rating for adoption in future if they place children within 12 months, Ofsted says.”
BBC News, 27th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government is to introduce legislation to make it easier for prospective parents to adopt children from different racial or cultural backgrounds, Michael Gove has announced.”
The Guardian, 23rd February 2012
Source; www.guardian.co.uk
“Christians who want to be exempt from equality legislation are like Muslims trying to impose sharia on Britain, Trevor Phillips, the human rights watchdog, has declared.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Children and Families in England and Wales will benefit from major reforms to the family justice system which will tackle delays, streamline processes and rebuild trust.”
Ministry of Justice, 6th February 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Childcare decisions in family courts should be made within six months, an official review has said.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Fathers who have gone through divorce or separation will not be granted a legal right to guarantee that their child has “a meaningful relationship with both parents”, according to a long-awaited report on family law.”
The Guardian, 3rd October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teenage mother has lost her fight to be allowed to bring up the daughter she gave birth to when she was just 14 years old.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Coventry City Council v O and others [2011] EWCA Civ 729; [2011] WLR (D) 205
“Where foster parents issued a notice of intention to adopt a child they were fostering, the local authority retained the power to remove the child from the foster parents’ home to the home either of other foster parents or of prospective adopters, under section 38 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.”
WLR Daily, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A Catholic adoption agency has been told it cannot discriminate against gay couples in the latest outcome of an ongoing legal battle that has pitted the rights of same sex parents against religious groups who want to opt-out of anti-discrimination legislation.”
The Independent, 26th April 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A mother who kept her baby a secret from her husband has been told she can not have the boy adopted after judges refused to back ‘a great lie’.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An independent Ombudsman could be appointed to investigate cases in which social workers and the courts are accused of taking children from their homes without justification.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th March 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“New guidance will tell social workers that they should allow white couples to adopt black and ethnic minority children, it was revealed today.”
The Independent, 19th February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Helen Reece, a reader in law at the London School of Economics, called on Theresa May, the Home Secretary, to relax rules which automatically ban sex offenders from caring for children, saying that this could breach their human rights.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th December 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government could face legal action if it continues to ban sex offenders from working with children, according to new research published today.”
The Guardian, 30th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Christian paediatrician who was dismissed from an adoption panel over her belief that children should not be placed with same-sex couples today lost her claim for religious discrimination.”
The Independent, 16th November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A paediatrician who claims she was driven out of her job because of her Christian views will today start a legal battle over what rights doctors have to intervene in homosexual adoptions.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“White couples will be able to adopt black and Asian children more easily under Government plans, it has been disclosed.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A rape victim who gave her baby away 20 years ago because she could not be sure if the child was her husband’s cannot now find out the truth because of adoption rules, a court has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Roman Catholic adoption charity’s appeal to be allowed to discriminate against gay people wanting it to place children with them has been rejected.”
BBC News, 19th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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