In Harm’s Way
The Memoir of a Child Protection Lawyer from the Most Secretive Court in England and Wales – the Family Court
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Narrated by:
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Emma Spurgin Hussey
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By:
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Teresa Thornhill
About this listen
When the system fails the parents, how can it protect the children?
Welcome to the secretive world of the Family Court.
What's it like to act for a father who has recently overcome his drug problem but risks losing his beloved son to foster care?
Or to represent a young mother whose abusive childhood has left her depressed and struggling to cope, to the point where the local authority is seeking to persuade the Family Court to place her small children for adoption?
In this hard-hitting account of her work representing parents in care proceedings in the Family Court, child protection lawyer Teresa Thornhill conveys the dilemmas inherent in the job and shows how our under-resourced system of child protection – in both its social work and legal aspects – often fails to provide support that could enable the most vulnerable parents to continue to care for their children.
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Critic reviews
‘Should be required reading for those who care about how society treats our most vulnerable citizens.’ Louise Allen, Sunday Times bestselling author
‘This timely book resonated with my experiences as a children’s social worker and probation officer; it’s a refreshingly honest account of our dysfunctional child protection system.’ Joanna Hughes, former children’s social worker and probation officer.
'This thought provoking book should be ‘required reading’ for all involved in the safeguarding of children and young people in England today. The author has had a lifetime of hard-earned experience in working as a lawyer in the Family Court. She distils this experience into a comprehensive yet easily readable account of how the Court operates, illustrating the processes with case histories of the experiences of such children. Her empathy and compassion for them shines through as do her positive suggestions for improving the care and best interests of highly vulnerable families.' Professor Sir Al Aynsley – Green Kt, former first Children’s Commissioner for England and Professor Emeritus, University College London.
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- richard2
- 22-03-25
Very exhaustively detailed
on procedures for bringing child protection cases to court and of some individual cases. A clear insight into the failings of the ‘care’ services who are under extreme stress from overwork and underfunding. I found the book heavy going at times. It is very well read and the narrator never flags, even when the text gets long winded and a bit overwhelming.
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- Abra Brash
- 11-10-24
Informative and listened start to finish
This book sheds light on a world that is so hidden from the public due to reporting restrictions in family courts, so it give powerful and heartfelt insight into the cases this lawyer may of come across...... the underlying message I took from this is..... social care has zero funds to do proactive work with families who may need some additional support because all the funds are going into the placements of children, I am a care leaver myself so I do understand the system..... but what I fail to understand is why they don't take the approach ok it's (for example) £90 an hour to get the mother with mental health issues specialist trauma counselling and it's on average £5k a week to have a child in a placement for a very basic non specialised placement, why do they not put the work in first before it gets to that, wouldn't they see a shift in the amount of cases that they have to place a child? Who knows......
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- STEPHANIE
- 10-08-24
The honesty of the author
It gave a great insight into the difficulties faced by our society and especially children.
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- Jackie
- 09-04-24
Eye opening truth
....interesting insight into another failing and troubling arena of justice. Very informative and engrossing
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