Family preservation versus child rescue
I was kindly sent Dr Peter Dale’s response to the Government consultation on contact with children in care, and sibling placement in adoption. I blogged about those consultations here :-...
View ArticleInjustice, the death penalty and… Cloppa Castle?
This post is by way of being a book review, unsolicited, for a non-fiction book called “Injustice” by Clive Stafford Smith. I’ve popped you an amazon link here, not because I get any money for doing...
View ArticleThere’s a small boat made of china, going nowhere on my mantelpiece
Laplace, prediction, and why we might, everywhere we go, always take the weather with us in care proceedings By the start of the nineteenth century, scientists had discovered a great many of the...
View Article“Two thirds of children who died of abuse in 2012 could have been saved”
An examination of this very shocking claim from the Children’s Rights Alliance for England report, and discussion of the report itself. This is a very interesting report, with very weighty...
View ArticleAlways/never
I’ve been reading a book by Eric Schlosser recently, called “Command and Control” – it is primarily about the history of incidents and accidents in America with nuclear weapons, Schlosser’s research...
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