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Family justice review ‘monstrous sham’
An official review into family justice which rejects plans to give parents equal rights to share custody of their children in the event of a split is “a betrayal of children and their families”, campaigners said yesterday.
The final report by former mandarin David Norgrove into the family justice system, which processes care and adoption orders, said “orders should be made only on areas in which parents are unable to make agreements independently”.
However campaigners said that by not specifying that parents should have equal rights, any changes would simply be “merely superficial adjustments to a fundamentally broken system”.
Ken Sanderson, chief executive of Families Need Fathers, said the review’s failure to recommend shared parenting legislation or a statement on the importance of both parents in law represents “an abdication of their responsibilities to children and their families”.
Nadine O’Connor, of Fathers 4 Justice, said the review was “a monstrous sham and a bureaucratic exercise in improving the efficiency of injustice”.
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