Children Law Conference 2010

Event Details

Course Code: S2437
Speaker: Various
Specialisations: Family, Conferences,
Venue: Liverpool Law Society, 2nd Floor, The Cotton Exchange, Edmund Street, Liverpool, L3 9LQ
CPD hours: 6 hours
Date: Wednesday, 21 April, 2010
Time: 09:30 - 16:45

Members Price: £149
Non Members Price: £199
Trainee Price: £149
Support Staff Price: £149

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Programme

9:00 Registration

9:30 - 9:40 Chairperson's Introduction ~ HHJ S Dodds

9:40 - 10:40 Legal Update ~ Simon Heaney

Public & Private law update
Shared residence/Shared Care – The new norm?
Grandparents and the wider family – Life after re B
Domestic violence – The President’s Practice
Direction v Resources
Representation for children – crisis? What crisis?

10:40 - 11:25 Parents who Drink Heavily: Some Issues Impacting with Child Care

Proceedings ~ Prof. Peter Booth

Setting the scene – the scale of alcohol problems
Information that can be useful in assessment
The impact of heavy drinking on parenting
A sample of cases
Alcohol testing
Treatment and outcomes

11:25 - 11:40 Refreshments

11:40 - 12:35 Section 11 Enforcement ~ Clive Baker

The impact of s 11 warning notices on contact orders
Use of recordings rather than orders
How the court will encourage and support contact following the introduction of S11A to S11P
The practical effects in local courts so far following the introduction of S11A to S11P

12:25 - 1:30 Changes to Media Access to Family Courts ~ Iain Goldrein QC

What has/hasn't changed?
Policy background to and problem areas of the new rules
"Specified Grounds" and the making of representations to the media
Check-list for authenticity of media representitves
What is the position vis a vis adoption & placement hearings?
How are the children's interests protected after the end of the hearing?
Disclosure: The new FPR 11.4
The overriding statutory regime, Practice Directions & Practice Notes
The Article 8 / Article 10 balancing exercise and case-law
Recent case-law including Re X

1:30 - 2:15 Lunch

2:15 - 3:00 Family Forever: Service & Parenting Responses to Children's Needs in

Separation - Salli Ward

Childrens needs during and beyond family breakdown
The new 'Contact Activities' Parenting Programme
Various other approaches around parenting used in work with separated families

3:00 - 3:15 Refreshments

3:15 - 3:55 Too Impaired to Nurture? Myths in the Assessment of Parents with Learning

Disabilities ~ Dr. Jeremy Tudway

The assessment of parents with learning disabilities is complex and requires experienced learning disability practitioners as expert witnesses owing to some of the long-standing myths regarding parenting, nurturing & learning disability
Sometimes referred to as 'false deviance' it is often assumed that the presence of a learning disability necessarily predisposes these people to inadequate caring or inappropriate behaviour; however compromises to parenting in parents with, and without, learning diabilities are linked to similar factors and are not the diability per se.
Research evidence has repeatedly found that parents with learning disbilities can provide 'good enough' or even excellent parenting given appropriate support

3:55 - 4:35 Use of Steroids ~ Dr. Deborah Ward, Alpha Bio Labs

Use of steroids and misuse
Naturally produced steroids
Detection of steroids in hair

4:35 - 4:45 Chairperson's Closing Address ~ HHJ S Dodds

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