Self-Help Tool 1 Questions for Case Summary
Case summary available in Self-Help Guide
Vulnerable Witness Guidance
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Challenging Home Office refusals
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A SELF-HELP GUIDE: DEFENDING YOUR CHILD AND YOURSELF FROM UNWARRANTED SEPARATION
Click to download: Self-Help-Children9Aug
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Questions about your family situation
Please email your answers to law@legalactionforwomen.net to help us know what your situation is and the help you might need. Any information you send is confidential.
Do you live in London or outside?
How many children do you have?
Are your children living with you? If not, where are they?
How old are they?
Are you a single parent?
Is the children’s father on their birth certificate?
When did your case start?
Have you suffered domestic violence? Did you report it? What was the outcome?
Do you or your children have a disability?
Are social services/CAFCASS involved in your case?
What stage is your case at now e.g. do you have any court cases, meetings with social services or CAFCAS coming up?
If so what date and what are they about?
Do you have a lawyer and if so what firm are they from and what are they saying they can do to help you?
Do you have other support from friends, family, carers?
What particular help do you need?
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Support not Separation launched at moving powerful meeting
Thank you to all who attended the launch of the coalition Support not Separation (SnS) on 11 July. The room was packed. People spoke movingly and with great power from their own experience. Four MPs attended: Emma Lewell-Buck, shadow minister for children and families; Sarah Champion, shadow minister for women and equalities; shadow chancellor John McDonnell; and Mohammad Yasin, newly elected to represent Bedford.
The detailed report below has quotes from those who spoke and lists the proposals made; you can also watch the speeches.
If you would like to join or to be involved in other ways, including by helping with case work, please let us know. SnS’s statement of aims, members so far are on LAW’s website and you can download the dossier Suffer the little Children & their Mothers.
27 July 2017 · 6:24 pm
SUPPORT NOT SEPARATION
A coalition to end the unwarranted and damaging separation
of children from their mother or other primary carer
LAUNCH:
Tuesday 11 July 6-8pm
Wilson Room in Portcullis House, Westminster, SW1A 2JR
Westminster tube Wheelchair accessible
(Please allow time to go through security.)
All welcome
SPEAKERS:
Organisations and individuals directly affected.
Hosted by Emma Lewell-Buck MP
For information contact: Legal Action for Women
law@allwomencount.net 020 7482 2496
The unwarranted removal of children is not an aberration of the past or The Handmaid’s Tale of the future. Thousands of mothers are being labelled ‘unfit’ and treated as mere surrogates right now.
Parliament, 18 Jan 2017
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