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Recurrent care proceedings: Part 1: Progress in research and practice since the Family Justice Council 6th Annual Debate (£)
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MIKE SHAW Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Child and Family Department at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
KAREN BROADHURST Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies University of Manchester
JUDITH HARWIN Professor of Social Work Brunel University
BACHAR ALROUH Research Fellow Brunel University
SOPHIE KERSHAW Service Manager Family Drug and Alcohol Court
CLAIRE MASON Research Associate University of Manchester Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
The Family Justice Council 6th Annual Debate held in December 2012 was on the following motion: ‘Women who have children removed to care year after year are being failed by a system unable to respond to them as vulnerable adults needing support in their own right’.
In this article Mike Shaw and colleagues reflect on developments in research and practice since the debate documenting new research evidence and emerging practice initiatives. The article considers the value of formal knowledge exchange events to progress wider national conversation about pressing matters in family justice – in this case mothers caught in a cycle of recurrent public law proceedings. The article...
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