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Statutory duty to support birth parents needed to tackle repeat removals of children, says charity

Community Care

Young mothers and care leavers at particular risk In England and Wales, the probability of a woman entering her first repeat proceedings with a new child within a decade of her first proceedings was about one in five, found a Nuffield Family Justice Observatory-commissioned report published last year.

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Third of recent infant care cases involved parents with learning disabilities or difficulties – research

Community Care

The research, by academics from Oxford Brookes University, found that as a result, reasonable adjustments were not made for parents at the pre-proceedings stage and, more generally, parenting support from councils was insufficiently adjusted to their needs.

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Overcoming the barriers to contact between siblings separated by the care system

Community Care

A report from the Children’s Commissioner for England last year found that 37% of children in care had been separated from at least one sibling in their initial placement. We received funding from the Hadley Trust to develop a pilot event in Leicestershire.

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Supervision orders face overhaul to improve effectiveness in supporting family reunification

Community Care

Keehan’s fellow co-chair, Judith Harwin, professor in socio-legal studies at Lancaster University and lead author of the 2019 research into supervision orders’ impact and the 2022 study into parents’ experiences, told Community Care that the guidance reflected families’ feedback.