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National media interest has focused on Eunice and Owen Johns, a couple of Christian faith with 20 years for foster carer experience behind them. When Derby City Council told them that it would have difficulty approving their application to become approved foster carers because of their faith-based belief that homosexuality is unacceptable, they sued for discrimination on religious grounds. On Monday the Court of Appeal ruled against them.
The technical legal justifications of the judges to support this decision hold water, and organisations such as Stonewall have applauded the ruling saying that there should be no place in fostering for people who hold such views. But mainstream religions such as Roman Catholicism and Islam disapprove of homosexuality, and yet it would be outrageous for anyone to claim that all observing Catholics and Muslims should be excluded from fostering. Indeed the shortage of foster carers is often most acute within minority groups. Usually authorities operate a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. In truth this is a fudge, but is there a better way?
The concept of Assumption of Responsibility is on many stakeholders’ minds at the moment following the Supreme Court decision in CN & GN v Poole.
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Sussex Partnership NHS Trust was sentenced on 14 June 2019 for failing to provide safe care and treatment to a 19 year old inmate being cared for on the hospital wing of Lewes Prison, Jamie Osborne.
It was announced on 15 May 2019 that “more than 120 MPs have written to the government asking for an inquiry into how family courts in England and Wales treat victims of domestic violence.”
The first conviction of female genital mutilation (FGM) has resulted in a 13 year jail sentence for the child’s mother.
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