Sentences with phrase «child protection cases»

The second area, he says, is in child protection cases where the child or children should have an independent representation to voice their concerns.

He also carries out risk assessment reports and acts as an expert witness in private law child contact cases and public law child protection cases.

His presentation topics include attachment and parenting plans, attorney - expert relationships, constitutional issues in child protection cases, and paradigm shifts in child custody policy.

Building Safety for Battered Women and Their Children Into the Child Protection System (PDF - 519 KB) Pence & Taylor (2003) Explains how to use case files and focus groups to locate systemic problems in the handling of child protection cases where there has been a history of domestic violence.

«The FLBA remains concerned that these changes will drive experienced practitioners away from this work, at a time when child protection cases are increasing.

A panel member for the Office of the Children's Lawyer, Michael has represented children as young as a few months, and as old as 16, in child protection cases as well as custody / access disputes.

She has expertise in child abuse cases having worked as in - house counsel at a Children's Aid Society and having represented parents in court on child protection cases.

Summarizes challenges to unified data collection, sharing, and analysis among judges who hear child protection cases in Texas, discusses progress toward a uniform statewide system for managing and tracking data on child abuse and neglect cases, and suggests best practices for measuring and improving court performance.

Case files audits of children in need and child protection cases where there was domestic abuse, revealed a lack of assessment and information about the parenting capacity of 61 % of these fathers, despite 88 % of them having some contact with their children.

In family cases, these are generally child protection cases which may require psychologists to evaluate parents» functional capacities to meet all of the needs of their child (ren) throughout the period of being younger than the legal age of adulthood.

One of them, in a very difficult child protection case, was appealed.

While Ontarian courts have had to determine this issue in numerous child protection cases, the analysis was complicated by recent statutory amendments.

Her investigation into unreliable drug and alcohol testing at the Hospital for Sick Children's Motherisk laboratory led to the the lab being shut down and prompted governments in several provinces to probe child protection cases that involved Motherisk's flawed testing.

Andrea also mediates child protection cases with the Toronto - area Children's Aid Societies.

The Chief Medical Officer has just closed another consultation designed to address the quality and supply of expert witnesses in the family courts, in particular child protection cases.

Many, many social workers in child protection cases defy court orders without cause from family court judges and nothing is ever done.

Issues addressed include the overlap between child maltreatment and domestic violence, modifying child protective practice with families experiencing domestic violence, enhancing caseworker safety and support in complex child protection cases, and building collaborative responses for families experiencing domestic violence.

Most women served by Arkansas CARES enter the program single, poor, unemployed, with health problems and legal difficulties ranging from child protection cases to drug - related arrests.

This manual provides background on this complex topic and addresses the following practice issues: The overlap between child maltreatment and domestic violence; The basics of domestic violence; Modifying child protection practice with families experiencing domestic violence; Enhancing caseworker safety and support in child protection cases involving domestic violence; and Building collaborative responses for families experiencing domestic violence.

In child protection cases, fathers and father - figures are routinely ignored — putting children's lives at risk, as happened in the Baby Peter case.

Current open datasets capture a range of topics including alternative dispute resolution in child protection cases, law library usage and microloans for low - income women entrepreneurs.

The additional funding will allow LSS to expand its representation of individuals in criminal cases, provide more Gladue Reports, provide representation to grandparents in child protection cases and support and training for defence lawyers and elders participating in First Nations Courts.

[14] «Both judges of the Provincial Court (Family Division) and Children's Aid Societies pressed strongly to have the change in appeal procedures applied to child protection cases,» said Thomson.

Some family judges, including many who were now part of the expanded UFC, thought they were better suited than their criminal law counterparts to deal with these young persons and argued that these cases and child protection cases should be in the same court.

Practitioners need to be alert to the appropriate use of the inherent jurisdiction in child protection cases (bearing in mind, of course, the restrictions, including ChA 1989, s 100), as well as in cases with an international element.

In child protection cases, it is important that professionals understand the difficulties that the parent may experience and have an understanding of the disorder and ensure that the appropriate support is put in place for these parents.

Likewise instructing a psychologist to assess neurodevelopment issues of parents in child protection cases, would require experience of working with adults in areas including ASD, ADHD and other specific learning difficulties and have an understanding of the child protection and family court processes.

SB 1139 Requires annual performance evaluation by presiding judges for the Associate Judges for Child Support and Child Protection Cases and other personnel appointed under the applicable statutory provisions based on written personnel performance standards adopted by the presiding judge.

The Motherisk Commission promised to include Indigenous communities in its review of thousands of child protection cases.

In addition, Nancy has worked in child protection cases involving the Children's Aid Society and other such child advocacy agencies.

Recovery Science programs support alternatives to incarceration in criminal law and better approaches to substance abuse problems in criminal, family, and child protection cases.

Parents, agencies and lawyers involved in child protection cases are discovering a new tool for addressing allegations of alcohol abuse by a parent — continuous alcohol monitoring using the SCRAMx ® ankle bracelet.

Our law firm has extensive experience working with the state of Minnesota in child protection cases.

Applications for these orders are costly and very unlikely to succeed; they are generally reserved for cases where a children's aid society is involved in a child protection case.

In her e-book «Responding to Domestic Violence in Family Law, Civil Protection & Child Protection Cases», 2017 CanLIIDocs 2, Linda Neilson recommends that judges consider including the following in protection orders:

In her family law practice, Andrea represents parents and kin in child protection cases (LAO certificates accepted).

An OCJ judge in a child protection case made a temporary order changing the father's access from unsupervised to supervised prior to trial.

Again, the response is awaited but some experts and lawyers recently got together and devised a new mentoring and training scheme for experts in child protection cases.

Large increases to application fees could discourage some local authorities making applications to court in child protection cases, hindering attempts to protect vulnerable children like Baby P, lawyers claim.

By: Correy Stephenson September 4, 2009 Comments Off on County to pay for lawyers in child protection cases

«Regularly instructed in child protection cases of the most complex and serious nature, including sexual abuse, chronic neglect and murder.

A number of different statutes and regulations govern family law and child protection cases in Alberta.

She has litigated hundreds of child protection cases and has also worked with the government as an Ontario Children's Lawyer.