Adoption and Fostering
Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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By Alice Cannet Adopted children are increasingly returned to care homes due to their parents’ inability to cope with them, new data revealed today. Data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act for Channel Four showed that the number of adopted children who were sent back to care homes has doubled in the past five… Read more »
Fertility law should recognise the rights of children to know their biological parents and not hide their identity, an independent peer has claimed. Independent peer Lord Alton told the House of Lords the right for children to know their biological origins should be treated as a human right. “Sooner or later the truth will out”… Read more »
