Durable Solutions

Author: Rt Hon Lord Justice Thorpe
Publisher: Family Law LexisNexis
ISBN: 9781846610035
Published In: March 2006
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Durable Solutions is the result of the 2005 Interdisciplinary Conference held at Dartington Hall.

The conference assembled a uniquely qualified group of contributors, drawn from the many professions involved in the resolution of child welfare problems. This book brings together their papers and offers both theoretical background and practical experience aimed at ensuring that solutions work for children in the long-term.

The book examines the latest thinking on:

Court experiences and development outcomes
Models for achieving successful agreed and ordered outcomes in private law cases
Gender, parenting and the courts
Contact in private and public law cases - managing two or more families
Permanence for looked after children
The way forward - ideas for action

PLENARY 1: COURT EXPERIENCES AND DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES

The impact of the court process. What do the children tell us?
Dr Judith Trowell
The separate representation of children - in whose best interests?
Professor Gillian Douglas
A father's experience of care proceedings
Adam Phillips

PLENARY 2: SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS

PLENARY 3: MODELS FOR ACHIEVING SUCCESSFUL AGREED AND ORDERED OUTCOMES IN PRIVATE LAW CASES

In-court conciliation: brief encounter or permanent resolution?
Liz Trinder
Mediating parental disputes about their children inside and outside the court process: assessing parents' and children's wishes and attachments in private law
Gill Gorrell-Barnes
Early interventions: an alternative to contact disputes in private law family proceedings
Nicholas Crichton
Working with difficult couples in the family justice system
Dr Christopher Clulow

PLENARY 4: GENDER, PARENTING AND THE COURTS

Mothers and fathers
Katherine Gieve
Father-child relationships and children's development: A key to durable solutions?
Professor Charlie Lewis
Parenting disputes, gender conflict and the courts
Professor Carol Smart

PLENARY 5: CONTACT IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LAW CASES: MANAGING TWO OR MORE FAMILIES

Contact and children's well being in private and public law
Dr Danya Glaser
Contact with non-resident parents after separation and divorce
Joan Hunt
Contact with non-resident fathers: children's and parents' views
Professor Judy Dunn
Making decisions about contact in foster care and adoption: promoting security and managing risk
Dr Gillian Schofield
Thinking the unthinkable: the implications of research on women and children in relation to domestic violence
Dr Cathy Humphreys

PLENARY 6: PERMANENCE FOR LOOKED-AFTER CHILDREN

Using international comparisons to reflect on permanence options for children in out-of-home care in the UK
Professor June Thoburn CBE
Whose Care Plan is it Anyway?
David Spicer
The role of the independent reviewing officer - a practitioner's view
Amanda Checkley
Permanence for looked-after children
Paul Clark

PLENARY 7: SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS

PLENARY 8: HELPING TO ENSURE SOLUTIONS WORK FOR CHILDREN IN THE LONGER TERM

Adoptive parents and children - support from placement to adulthood
John Simmonds
The draft Children and Adoption Bill
Lord Justice Wall
The policy context
Bruce Clark

PLENARY 9