Oral fluid (saliva) drug testing is classified as a ‘narrow-window’ (short-term) testing method, meaning it can be used to detect very recent drug use (up to 48 hours after drugs were first consumed).

Family Rights Group is proud to launch ‘A film for parents with learning difficulties and disabilities: working with a child and family social worker.’ This much needed resource, created with and for ...

The labours of the Private Law Working Group, set up by the President of the Family Division back in August 2013, have now come to fruition and on 22 April the new Practice Direction 12B - Child ...

In Wolverhampton City Council v JA & Ors [2017] EWFC 62, Keehan J dealt with a care case which involved allegations of sexual abuse of two young girls. They were aged 13 (X) and 12 (Y) at the time of ...

Family Law in Partnership director David Allison and associate Carla Ditz re-examine how and why civil partnerships came into being, the successful campaign to allow heterosexual couples to enter into ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that no financial remedy hearing can properly conclude until one or other advocate has declaimed “…the wife must cut her coat accordingly”, “…sauce for the ...

This article examines the difficult and often emotive issue of disclosure of highly personal information about one party to other parties within public law proceedings under the Children Act 1989. The ...

Two recent family court decisions explore whether the statutory threshold under the Children Act 1989 can be met when parental harm occurs before a child’s birth or after a parent’s death.

Sadly, whilst we know that we must do our best for these individuals, the knowledge around what good practice could and should look like is not well-known. In this three-part series, we will explore ...

Unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK are in desperate need of the full range of social care and health services available from public authorities. Most asylum seekers who enter the ...