A 47 year-old British man has appeared in a French court charged with the murder of his two children following a bitter divorce from his wife.
Julian Stevenson’s two children, aged five and ten, were killed during their first unsupervised visit to his flat in Lyon on Saturday afternoon.
The Home Office broke the law when it refused to grant foreign children living in the UK permission to remain permanently, despite having previously given them temporary leave.
High Court judge Mr Justice Holman has ruled that by only granting the children
The length of time spent by courts deciding whether to take children into care or have them adopted has been cut by six weeks, according to new figures from the Ministry of Justice.
The average completion time for such cases fell from 55 weeks in 2011 to just 49 in
Thousands of children ran from care homes last year, according to new figures released by the NSPCC.
The figures, gathered by the children’s charity under the Freedom of Information Act, show that almost 8,000 children in care went missing last year, with nearly 3,000
The decision of Hull City Council to remove two children from the care of their grandmother without first consulting their mother has been declared unlawful by the High Court.
In Re (H) vi Kingston Upon Hull City Council, the children had been placed with the
Children will be asked their views on life in care as part of a new study.
The Bright-Spot project was launched this month by children’s advocacy charity Voice and the University of Bristol. Its aim is to identify practices and policies that improve children’s experiences of life in care.
Children in care face a three year wait to be homed with adoptive families in half of London boroughs, new figures suggest.
An “adoption map” of London, published today by the Department for Education,
High Court judge Mr Justice Cobb has told parents who fear their child will be taken into care that Ireland cannot provide ‘sanctuary’.
Ruling in the case of an English mother who had crossed the Irish Sea to try and escape care proceedings, the judge noted:
A mother who has been separated from her son for seven years said she will take her contact battle to the European Court of Human Rights.
Claire Walters has only seen her nine year old son Donavan a few times since he went to
A transgender man has had his divorce application refused because his marriage was never valid, according to an Arizona judge.
Judge Douglas Gerlach concluded that there was insufficient evidence that Thomas Beatie
A group of local councillors will examine children’s services in Walsall, following a highly critical Ofsted report.
The report, entitled Inspection of safeguarding and looked after children services,
The human rights of a German couple were breached when their children were taken into care, a court has ruled.
In BB and FB v Germany ,the couple’s two children were moved into a children’s home after their 13 year-old daughter claimed that her father regularly beat them if they did not do well
Educated women who marry after 30 are earn an average of 56 per cent more than their younger siblings, a study has claimed.
By contrast, men who marry in their 20s have higher incomes than older husbands – regardless of their education.
Gay marriage is good for children with same sex parents, the American Academy of Pediatrics has claimed.
In a newly published policy statement, the organisation states:
“If a child has two living and capable parents who choose to create a permanent bond by
The High Court has granted permission for a British child to be taken to the US to live with her half-sister.
The case of Kent County Council v. PA-K and IA (a child) concerned a four year old child referred to as ‘LA’ in court documents. The local authority had applied to be allowed to let
Children of divorced parents are more likely to start smoking than those with married parents, according to a study from the University of Toronto.
Men whose parents divorced before they turned 18 are 48 per cent more likely to
An woman in the Republic of Ireland who is the genetic mother of twins has won a legal battle to be declared their legal mother.
Authorities had previously refused to list the woman as genetic mother on the twin’s birth
Sociologist Dr Patricia Morgan has claimed that the legalisation of gay marriage will accelerate the decline of heterosexual marriage by breaking the cultural link between marriage and parenthood.
She made the claims in a lengthy submission
Concerns that children adopted by gay and lesbian couples will suffer worse parenting are unfounded, according to new research.
The University of Cambridge’s Centre for Family Research
Staffordshire County Council has launched a new drive aimed at recruiting so-called ‘resilience foster carers’ willing to take on the most troubled children.
The council hopes to recruit professionals experienced in working with young people
The Supreme Court has issued rulings in two separate care cases, unanimously allowing one appeal and dismissing the second.
In the matter of L and B (Children) was an appeal centred around the right of a judge to
Yesterday’s Independent featured a thought-provoking article on the subject of teenagers and divorce by journalist Joanna Moorhead.
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