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Scare in the community
13.03.08: OVERZEALOUS magistrates were making indiscriminate use of
parenting orders and risked ruining the new partnership between the
children's home network and a business consortium, said Dr Ernest
Lavery.
In a speech to the CBI to inaugurate the scheme headed by
telecommunications giant, GigaComs, the director-general of New Ways
Children's Homes UK warned that there had been a sharp increase in the
number of parenting orders over the last four years.
He said that fines had encouraged compliance by most parents, but not in
cases where there were other serious problems. This had led to a 300%
increase in the number of children being placed in care. MF
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