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Family Justice

I welcome the Secretary of State's statement. I have experience; a family came to see me who were concerned about the local authority's involvement in their ongoing case. The case ended up in the family courts and the judge made a ruling that the family should not approach me again while it was in court. In my view, that was not really about protecting the child, which must be of the utmost importance, but about protecting the professionals involved in the case, because I was dubious about their judgment.