Custom List: Soundbytes

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:11:14 GMT

Soundbytes

Harriet Harman 30 Oct 2006
"The state should be accountable for its actions when it intervenes in family life."
John Hemming MP 27 Nov 2006
"It remains, however, that the stress caused to children by being taken away from their home when nothing was actually wrong in the first instance should not be ignored".
Mr Justice Collins 4 March 2005
The wrongful removal of children from a loving caring environment “is in itself abuse.”
Mr Justice Munby 2 Nov 2006
'We cannot afford to proceed on the blinkered assumption that there have been no miscarriages of justice in the family justice system."
Barbara Hudson BAAF Scotland 1 Nov 2006
"We can’t keep taking children away from people and screwing them up in the system and looking to other families to sort it out. We have to start thinking more creatively about making it possible to stay in the birth family."
Eric Pickles MP 2 March 2006
"In care proceedings, any carer who is accused of abuse should have an automatic entitlement to legal aid; the opportunity to instruct an expert of their choosing; a right of appeal against any findings; and legal aid for any appeal."
Martin Luther King 16 April 1963
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Des Hudson Chief Exec Law Society Dec 2006
"The removal of a child from his or her parents is one of the most draconian powers that the state possesses. Recent history shows that some decisions taken by social services are not always in the best interests of children and their families."
Hilary Armstrong, Cabinet Office Minister, 19 July 2006
"We are concerned to ensure not only that they [children in care] have a stable experience, but that we do as much as possible to encourage contact with their own families."
Anthony Douglas CAFCASS Chief Exec 17 Aug 2006
“For the state to intervene in family life without leaving a trace is, I think, deeply unaccountable.”

PAIN - Parents Against INjustice: Lists

Book List: Reference list

Custom List: Soundbytes