London, UK. 8th March 2018. Global Women's Strike mock trial of the Family Courts in an International Women’s Day protest in front of Parliament. Speakers included mothers who have had children unjustly removed and others who read out shocking comments made in court by judges. The UK has the highest rate of adoptions in Europe, almost all without consent of their birth family. ey say that poverty, often a result of bebefit cuts Credit: Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
London, UK. 8th March 2018. Global Women's Strike mock trial of the Family Courts in an International Women’s Day protest in front of Parliament. Speakers included mothers who have had children unjustly removed and others who read out shocking comments made in court by judges. The UK has the highest rate of adoptions in Europe, almost all without consent of their birth family. In some working class areas, 50% of children are referred to social services and that families of colour, immigrant and disabled are all disproportionately affected. They say that poverty, often a result of bebefit cuts and sanctions, and lack of proper housing is often mistaken for neglect and that instead of help being provided as the 1989 Childrens Act instructeda re taken into care and then put up for adoption when mothers or grandmothers are capable of good parenting. Victims of domestic abuse are often accused of 'failing to protect' their children and vague charges such as putting children at risk of future emotional harm and neglect are used by the secret courts to remove children from mothers and grandmothers. They want hearings with proper public scrutiny, and an end to the gagging of mothers, the greater use of kinship carers (only 9% of looked after children are placed with these in the UK, compared to almost half in Spain), the proper implementation of the 1989 Children Act, and the Care Act 2014 which entitles disabled mothers to extra help. Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
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