he first working Monday of the year has been dubbed ‘divorce day’, due to a supposed influx of couples seeking legal help to end their marriages.
But much like the thoroughly debunked Blue Monday, which continues to receive mainstream coverage two decades after a PR company came up with the concept to sell holidays, family lawyers say divorce day is nothing more than media hype with little basis in fact.
read the full article on Today’s Family Lawyer here.
English children’s homes are in crisis. Does Denmark hold the answers?
UK children’s minister Josh MacAlister has travelled to Copenhagen to see what can be learned from Danish system Read the full article in the Guardian
Child focused courts delivering a near 50% reduction in case timeliness
Child Focused Courts are seeing reductions of nearly 50% in the timeliness of cases moving from application receipt to final order according to the latest
High screen time can hurt children’s learning and language skills, study suggests
The effect of high screen time on children is as significant as parental behaviour and premature birth, if not greater, a global study has found.