Children Act & Family Proceedings - Areas of Specialism
Parental Capacity, Including the Impact of Learning Difficulties
- Assessment of parental capacity of a mother with learning difficulties and her potential for improvement with suitable training.
- Assessment of parental capacity and potential for rehabilitation of drug abusing parents themselves allegedly survivors of earlier childhood trauma.
- Assessment of family functioning in family proceedings under the Children Act where a Local Authority claimed that behavioural difficulties in a child were the result of inappropriate parenting.
Risk Assessment & Protective Capacity of Parent
- Risk assessment at the request of a Guardian ad Litem, of the protective capacity of a mother who had formed a relationship with a schedule 1 sex offender.
- Risk assessment of a schedule 1 sex offender seeking to spend more time with a family comprising 3 children, which was opposed by a Local Authority.
- Assessment of a parent who had been convicted of causing injury to his child, as to the nature of his dangerousness to his child in the future, and what prospects there could be for rehabilitation.
- Assessment of risk factors present in a life sentance prisoner appealing against being turned down for parole by a Local Review Commitee.
Disputes over contact between Children & Non-resident Parent
Assessments for Adoption & Fostering
Developmental Assessments of Children including for Childcare & Contact Needs
- Assessment of problems and benefits likely to arise if a transexual father were to have contact with his own child, and how the child should be informed about their father's condition.
Risk Assessment of Carers & Potential Carers
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