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Campaigners demand public access to the family courts
Thursday September 20,2007
Leading the group were mother Yvonne Coulter, 35, and
her 18-year-old daughter Tammy.
Derby Evening Telegraph
Central Tonight East -
ITV Central Tonight East
(Video)
Woman Fights To Keep Unborn Baby
A pregnant woman has been told that her baby will be taken
from her at birth despite the recommendation by
psychiatrists who are backing 22-year-old Fran Lyon in her
determination to prove that she is capable of being a responsible
mother.
Sky News
 You tube row over social services baby threat
Martin and Vanessa Brookes image©
Sunday
Telegraph August 20 2007
A heavily pregnant woman is at the
centre of an extraordinary legal battle with social workers after she
secretly recorded them threatening to take away her newborn baby.YouTube audio: The secret recording
Sacked whistleblowers win £1m payout
from council
Six care workers sacked for revealing a shocking
catalogue of mismanagement in children's homes to the
Yorkshire Post have won a £1m settlement from Wakefield
Council By Rob Waugh
Yorkshire Post
Bullying, secrecy and the legal baby-snatchers
By John Hemming MP, August 8, 2007
We in England and Wales have got ourselves into a bit of a mess in
terms of family law.
Telegraph UK
Mum's bid for Public Hearings
A
Carmarthenshire mum is calling for people to sign her petition to make
family courts less secretive.
Jane Davies, of Whitemill, has asked shoppers in Carmarthen to get behind
her and sign the petition, which will be handed to acting Children's
Commissioner for Wales, Maria Battle.
Missing Children
By John Sweeney BBC Panorama
Nicky and Mark Webster from Cromer,
Norfolk
It seems hard to imagine a crueller
fate for a mother: that her first three children should be taken away
forever because of damning medical evidence of abuse - and then for
her to discover that the whole thing may have been a mistake.
2nd July 2007
BBC Panorama Video
Gay couple left free to abuse boys
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because social workers feared being branded homophobic
 A
homosexual foster couple were left free to sexually abuse vulnerable boys in
their care because social workers feared being accused of discrimination if
they investigated complaints, an inquiry concluded yesterday. Craig Faunch
and Ian Wathey were one of the first homosexual couples in the country to be
officially approved as foster parents. They looked after 18 children in only
15 months.
Daily Mail September 5
Daughter dies while in care
by Ben Leapman, Home Affairs
Correspondent
Daughter died while in care of
social workers
The grieving parents of a 12-year-old
girl who died in council care have condemned the
secrecy of the family
courts which took their daughter away. 30th July 2007
Telegraph
Toddler 'drowned in pool as her
foster parents partied'
By COLIN FERNANDEZ and ANDY DOLAN
A toddler who had been taken into care
died after being found floating in her foster parents' swimming pool.
Anna Hider, 17 months, was discovered unconscious in the water
31st July 2007
Daily Mail
Other News...
Cornwall social services
Child theft!
by
Cornwall social services
The
grandparents of two young children are fighting
to stop them being put up for adoption
Read more
Coventry social services
Daily Mail April 16 2007
Advertised
'Children free to a good home'
How can this be protecting children’s identity?
Essential Viewing!
Justice for Families
- MP Lobby 28th March 2007
The following 5
videos cover the whole of the event.
Watch here
The Times - March 29, 2007 - by
Camilla Cavendish -The forces of secrecy are prevailing - Last week a
High Court judge denounced the “nightmare” suffered by a couple who were
wrongly accused of harming their baby son.
Read Article...
Daily Mail
March 2 2007, Police set out to crucify us, say couple cleared over salt
killing - A couple accused of killing their foster child by salt poisoning
have been cleared of any involvement in his death.
Read Article...
The Guardian
February 21, 2007 - Inquiry into criminal cases after expert witness's
secret patient files revealed - Controversial professor kept 4,450 'special'
files - Goldsmith acts over fears of withheld evidence
Read Article...
This is London -
Feb 14 2007 - Betrayal of a generation - Family breakdown, drink, drugs,
teenage sex and fear of violence have left British children the worst off in the
world's 21 richest nations. The damning verdict was delivered in a United
Nations report.
Read Article...
BBC News -
Feb 12 2007 - Couple jailed for child torture - A couple who subjected their
four-year-old disabled daughter to a systematic campaign of cruelty have been
jailed for a total of 22 years.
Read Article...
BBC News -
Feb 12 2007 - Vienna busts huge child porn ring - Austria has uncovered an
international child pornography network involving more than 2,360 suspects from
77 countries, the interior minister said.
Read Article...
The Voice -
Feb 12 2007 - Gone Missing Trafficked children need more help Research on child
trafficking in England found that 48 children who were suspected to be
trafficked, but were later taken in by social services, have gone missing. More
shocking is that 48 of these children have gone missing from social services
care and have never been found,” the report said.
Read Article...
Guardian
Feb 5,
2007 - Cut off in care -Troubled children are being forced away from their
families by the closure of care homes, says Julie Hamilton.
Read Article...
Daily Mail - Feb
2 2007 - 'My life as a nurse' By JANET STREET-PORTER In the office was a list
(written in secret code) on the wall of mums whose babies were going to be taken
from them immediately after birth and placed in care for their own safety.
Read Article...
ic Wales Western Mail
- Feb 2 2007 - Social services still to learn 'Climbie' lesson SOME councils in
Wales have still not fully implemented the recommendations made by the Climbie
inquiry team.
Read Article...
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