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Closed Petition for Independent Inquiry in Family Court Failings

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Court orders have placed children at risk of harm through being forced to live with or spend time with abusive parents. Parents have taken their lives as a result of poor decisions which disrupt and sever bonds between children and families. Successive reviews have failed to solve systemic problems.

Clandestine proceedings - meant to protect the identities of children and families - prevent scrutiny, eliminate accountability, stifle debate, mask incompetence, breed distrust, prevent learning and development. Public faith and trust in the system have collapsed. Only an INDEPENDENT inquiry - free from influence by the judiciary, Whitehall, all pressure groups and other third parties - will disclose the true extent of any problems and start to build public confidence in a failing system.

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    This petition will stay open until 6 November 2019.