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How gender identity has corrupted the care system Policy Exchange - In Absentia Parentis policyexchange.org.uk/publication/in…

It is not of course the issue of unregulated experts that caused these cases to go badly awry - but it can’t have helped. 77 of us wrote in protest about their use in 2019 - we were ignored.

I wrote about this in 2019, sent an open letter to the president signed by May others. We were ignored. No unregulated expert should be any where near a family court. lawgazette.co.uk/news/family-co…

Important Judgment in a Family Case - from the most senior judge. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2026/38 He says it's "about the failure of the whole process... undertaken in a manner which is now to be seen as fundamentally unsound" .

Important decision by the most senior judge in the Family Court - a teenage boy is allowed to return to his mother, overturning a "draconian" decision made by lower court 6 years before. A psychologist claimed the mother had alienated the children from their father. They then had to live with him....theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/1…

How can adoption survive when most adopted children will have suffered significant harm and loss, and there are limited resources to support adoptive parents? The legal fiction is no longer sustainable. The UKSC decision in X v Y will be interesting. The death of adoption | Child Protection Resource tinyurl.com/yy6e4jfw

This writer - like so many others - shows she knows nothing of childhood. Odd considering that she has had ‘lived experience’ of this state. As do we all. To suggest that giving children ‘genuine agency’ in contested proceedings between their parents is a solution (or when deciding whether to sterilise themselves) is as cruel, stupid and pointless as demanding my dog cook me a roast dinner. But I agree that court isn’t the place for frightened or angry parents. But where else do they go, once their ‘agency’ has been overwhelmed by emotion?

Once post adoption direct contact with birth families was admitted, the status of adoption as an unassailable legal fiction crumbles. And many would agree that’s the right outcome. charlesrussellspeechlys.com/en/insights/qu…

Jessica Bradley v CM & Ors Neutral Citation Number[2026] EWHC 125 (Fam): Apps by journalist for access to documents on the court file in four private family law cases, and for permission to publish contents of certain documents. Apps largely allowed. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2026/…

Children and parents speak up about the Pathfinder in private law – new research published | The Transparency Project transparencyproject.org.uk/children-and-p…

Poverty gets the blame for society's worst outcomes—but it isn’t the real culprit. When developmental psychologists examine childhood outcomes—things like graduation rates, substance abuse, drinking and driving, and incarceration—they look closely at what predicts those outcomes later in life. One variable they often study is childhood harshness, which is essentially growing up in a low-income household. In other words, how poor a family was. What many studies find, however, is that the relationship between family income and those later outcomes is surprisingly weak. In some cases, there is only a small correlation; in others, no meaningful connection at all. By contrast, researchers also examine a different factor: childhood instability or unpredictability. This is measured through indicators such as how often a child moved homes, how many romantic partners a primary caregiver had, and how much day-to-day uncertainty characterized the child’s life. Here the results are far more consistent. Childhood instability shows a strong association with negative outcomes later in life—effects that are considered large by the standards of this research. Crucially, even when researchers statistically control for family income, early instability remains a powerful predictor of incarceration, substance abuse, and other adverse outcomes.

In The Australian 🇦🇺 today. ‘“Justice Strum's scathing assessment of the RCH gender clinic's practices and the "misleading" evidence given by the hospital's chief of medicine and former gender service director Michelle Telfer represents a crucial turning point in the debate”.

@TalkTV covered the puberty suppression experiments with Heather Binning, founder of @WomesRightsNet

Hope many can make the protest on 17 Dec

Legal aid needs urgent funding before the system collapses thetimes.com/uk/law/article…

Parents threatened by authorities as 1,000 adopted children returned to care - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Important podcast & discussion about capture in Social work, specifically Cafcass If you are concerned with children's safeguarding, do please listen Consider that the most vulnerable of children are impacted by social work failures

Further to my discussions with @ebswa on our forthcoming podcast about court and social work guidance re medical transition, I remember what I wrote about the @MyCafcass guidance in 2023. It doesn’t look as if the 2025 review of that guidance has done any better. We must challenge all of this. childprotectionresource.online/cafcass-guidan…

I think the President of the Family Division first raised lack of information about outcomes in FJS as serious problem in 2017 so worrying that nothing has happened or even apparently been discussed on how to fix this ‘Reform of the Family Court’ – evidence session for the House of Commons Justice Committee | The Transparency Project tinyurl.com/2jd4uxps