“The UK Border Agency is detaining children in ‘degrading and disgraceful’ conditions at Heathrow, according to an official watchdog.”
The Guardian, 14th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Department for Education has set out the key features of the Children and Families Bill announced in the Queen’s Speech. The Bill is expected to be introduced early in 2013.”
Family Law Week, 9th May 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“In a bid to protect children from over-sexualised imagery, the government is to consult on whether music DVDs should have movie-style age ratings.”
BBC News, 9th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“In the week that many parents will have to explain why a stripper was put through on Britain’s Got Talent (BGT) rather than a female impressionist, there has been much publicity on the idea of opt in pornography and whether this would be an effective way of protecting children from accessing indecent images online.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 8th May 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Nine men have been convicted of being part of a child sexual exploitation ring in Greater Manchester.”
BBC News, 8th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
AA (Somalia) v Entry Clearance Officer: [2012] EWCA Civ 563; [2012] WLR (D) 134
“Paragraph 352D of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules, concerning the entitlement to entry clearance of a child seeking entry into the United Kingdom as a de facto adopted child of a sponsor who had previously been granted asylum as a refugee, did not extend to children who, neither adopted de jure nor de facto within the ambit of paragraph 309A of the Rules, could be styled as ‘adopted’ by reason of having become a child of the family.”
WLR Daily, 1st May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The government is to consult on tough measures to protect children from internet pornography. Under plans being draw up by Downing Street, it would be up to customers to ‘opt-in’ to receive adult content online when they take out a broadband contract.”
The Guardian, 4th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Bindu Bansal, Solicitor with Paris Smith LLP, considers the advantages and disadvantages of establishing a presumption of shared parenting.”
Family Law Week, 29th April 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“Thousands of children will lose access to legal aid under government plans to shake up the system, campaigners say.”
BBC News, 17th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Dr Rob George, Fellow in Law at the University of Oxford and Associate Tenant at Harcourt Chambers, discusses relocation disputes and his on-going research into how these cases are dealt with in the first instance courts of England and Wales.”
Family Law Week, 13th April 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Guidance : Care Monitoring System Guidance for Practitioners
Family Law Bar Association, 5th April 2012
Source: wwww.flba.co.uk
“The UK Border Agency embarked on a controversial trial of using dental x-rays to establish the age of young asylum seekers without the formal approval of the NHS watchdog which ensures medical research is ethical, the Guardian can reveal.”
The Guardian, 5th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Guardian has been given exclusive access to a unit in West Yorkshire trying new ways to reach the most disturbed children.”
The Guardian, 6th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
In re J (Children) (Care Proceedings: Standard of Proof) [2012] EWCA Civ 380; [2012] WLR (D) 111
In looking to the threshold criteria identified within section 31 of the Children Act 1989, and addressing the problem of the unidentified perpetrator of violence to a child or children where the pool of perpetrators was limited, the courts had to apply, with great care, the authorities in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, where it was mooted that such authority was not compatible with certain decisions of the House of Lords.
WLR Daily, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The identities of more than 160 child sex offenders have been exposed during the first year of the ‘Sarah’s Law’ scheme, which allows worried parents to check on anyone who has regular access to their children.”
The Independent, 4th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Julie Stather, barrister, of 42 Bedford Row examines the advantages to child, parents and local authority of using section 34 of the Children Act.”
Family Law Week, 31st March 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“A five-year-old girl is thought to have become the UK’s youngest victim of forced marriage. She was one of 400 children to receive assistance from the government’s Forced Marriage Unit in the last year. The figures have emerged as the public consultation into criminalising forced marriage in England, Wales and Northern Ireland comes to an end.”
BBC News, 30th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Education Secretary Michael Gove today said a report into the torture of two young boys was ‘insufficient’ and showed the current system of serious case reviews is ‘failing’.”
The Independent, 29th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government has suffered a fresh series of defeats in the House of Lords over proposals to cut access to legal aid for children and in medical negligence cases.”
The Guardian, 27th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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