Supporting parents who have experienced recurrent care proceedings
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The Supporting Parents website brings together materials that will be relevant to anyone working with parents who have had children removed from their care through care proceedings.
The Supporting Parents website brings together materials that will be relevant to anyone working with parents who have had children removed from their care through care proceedings.
Following an initial set of care proceedings mother’s have a one in four chance of reappearing before the family court within seven years. Many fathers are also caught up in multiple proceedings, sometimes with the same partner, sometimes with a different partner.
These parents are likely to have experienced significant and multiple adverse experiences in their own childhood and have continued to face trauma and difficulties as adults, compounded by the trauma of having their children taken away.
A report provides an overview of existing, specialist services in England for parents who have appeared in one or more sets of care proceedings (commonly referred to as recurrent care proceedings).
The website has been developed to bring together research, practice knowledge and lived experience for all those who would like to better understand the issues facing parents and to ensure that they are better supported to access the services they need.