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		<title>In the best interests of children: how Gingerbread get the rights argument wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are exciting times for those of us working in the field of family separation. In two short weeks the government has announced initiatives which are designed to improve the relationship between children and both of their parents after separation. The first announcement, from the Minister in charge of Child Maintenance Reform is that investment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenwoodall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7104362&amp;post=167&amp;subd=karenwoodall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modernising the Children Act; let&#8217;s get it right for our children this time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s news from the Telegraph is that a Ministerial Group to review the Children Act 1989 is about to be announced. Coming ahead of the response to the Norgrove Review of Family Law, expected to be released early next week, this news signals a long awaited potential for change, at least amongst groups supporting fathers. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenwoodall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7104362&amp;post=157&amp;subd=karenwoodall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reforming child maintenance: resisting the pressure to punish fathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today sees the continuing debate on the Welfare Reform Bill in the House of Lords reach the issue of charging parents for the use of the Statutory Maintenance System, what used to be called the Child Support Agency. The issue of charging parents is one that has got Peers hot and bothered as they rush [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenwoodall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7104362&amp;post=147&amp;subd=karenwoodall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building a new future in a post Norgrove world</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, the Telegraph appears to be heralding a whole new world of possibilities in the post separation landscape. Sceptics will say that they will believe it when they see it, but if the Telegraph is to be believed, it appears that this government is about to ignore Norgrove and install the concept that a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenwoodall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7104362&amp;post=140&amp;subd=karenwoodall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Family Justice Review: death of fatherhood or the dawning of a new era?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allowing the days to pass since the publication of the final report from David Norgrove et al on their review of the Family Justice System, I have had the chance to read and digest the details as well as observe the various reactions from different quarters.  Scanning the media, it struck me that the key [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenwoodall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7104362&amp;post=129&amp;subd=karenwoodall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Under Scrutiny: blame, shame and separated families</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Monday morning and another breath taking piece of madness lands on my desk&#8230; I was about to start writing about the Children&#8217;s Rights Report in which the following mind blowing conclusion was highlighted Relationships with parents &#8211; The strong view was that the law about this should say that keeping relationships with parents when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenwoodall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7104362&amp;post=126&amp;subd=karenwoodall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why family separation is an equalities issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the heels of the PM&#8217;s outburst about runaway fathers, comes the launch of the new Fathers 4 Justice campaign.  This time the strategy is personal and its right on David Cameron&#8217;s doorstep.  The Hunger4Justice Campaign will see founding father of F4J Matt O Conner go on hunger strike, whilst a camp will be set [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenwoodall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7104362&amp;post=113&amp;subd=karenwoodall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Cameron, you should be ashamed of yourself.</title>
		<link>http://karenwoodall.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/david-cameron-you-should-be-ashamed-of-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This government might do well to reconsider its leader.   On Father&#8217;s day, a time to celebrate the men who give life to our children alongside mothers, David Cameron has launched one of the most bigoted attacks on dads that I have ever read, and he, supposedly the leader of the party that supports the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenwoodall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7104362&amp;post=102&amp;subd=karenwoodall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shared Parenting: getting it right for our children</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 10:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nuffield Foundation has just released a study, Caring for children after parental separation: would legislation for shared parenting time help children?, that states that shared parenting legislation is not in the best interests of children.  On the face of it, given the work that I do with families, I would tend to agree.  What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenwoodall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7104362&amp;post=96&amp;subd=karenwoodall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The cost of separation: why the proposals to reform child maintenance make sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week has seen the launch of a government Green Paper, a consultation on the future of the child maintenance system. The proposals it contains are far reaching and some of them quite radical, not least the concept of charging for the use of the Statutory Maintenance Scheme (the replacement for the beleaguered Child Support [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenwoodall.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7104362&amp;post=77&amp;subd=karenwoodall&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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