Family
Law: Activists complain about DfES official
Children Now - 3rd
May 2005
http://www.childrennow.co.uk/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=details&UID=f92373be-44bf-44e7-a7c6-04df3bb7ee13
A coalition
of activists has filed a complaint about the way in which a senior Department
for Education and Skills official has devised family law policy and
child protection guidance.
In a letter
sent to ministers, the group, which includes representatives of Fathers4Justice,
the Equal Parenting Council and Families Need Fathers, complained about
the way Bruce Clark set up the Family Resolutions pilot scheme that
started last year.
They said it
was completely different from the project based on the Florida Early
Interventions model that they believed would be set up in England.
Their submission
also complains about Clark's role in drawing up guidance for professionals
dealing with child abuse cases where they suspected Munchausen's Syndrome
by Proxy, Professor Sir Roy Meadow's theory.
The department
said it had received the letter and was considering the complaint.
