Stories

In their own words.

Anonymous accounts shared by families who have lived through the child protection and family court system. Names have been changed. Each was shared with permission.

Mother

I didn't understand what 'section 47' meant until it was over

"When the letter came through the door, I read it three times. I still didn't know what it meant. It took a friend, and eventually a solicitor, to translate it into English."

— Sarah, Yorkshire
Father

Being a father in this system

"I was an afterthought in my own children's case for months. I had to fight to be included in meetings I should have been at by right."

— Mark, the Midlands
Grandmother and kinship carer

We took our grandchildren in overnight. The support never came.

"We said yes immediately. We would say yes again. But nobody told us how lonely it would be, or how little help we would get."

— Joan, South Wales
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