FNF Newsletter 8th January 2021

Hello Visitor,

Welcome to our first January issue. 

There is a lot going on. We hope that 2021 will bring breakthroughs and better times for the children of separated parents and to us all. Let's work together for that. Here's a very important petition for starters!

As always, thank you for your continued support.

With best wishes

The Team at FNF

Can children still move between the homes of separated parents under the latest National Lockdown? **5 January Update**

On 5 January, The House of Commons updated its briefing paper which provides brief information in response to some key questions regarding the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on separated families, maintenance arrangements and access to children.

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Cafcass publishes updated organisational guidance on working with children through Covid-19

Following the Government announcement made on Monday 4th January, Cafcass has amended its guidance for staff on direct contact with children and families, working in the office and attendance at court.

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New and more credible research now challenges the claims that allegations of Parental Alienation are only a tool used by men to abuse mothers

Significant attention was given last year to a US report published in 2019 by Joan Meier et al ‘Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations’. The report, now powerfully challenged, claimed that courts were failing to protect children when mothers claimed domestic abuse because of counter-claims of parental alienation.

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