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Transparency
What can I talk about? Who can I talk to? ‘I am determined to take steps to improve access to and reporting of family proceedings. I am determined that the new Family Court should not be saddled, as...
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The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. Sydney J. Harris...
View ArticleWhat do children think about opening up the family courts?
There is serious concern that opening up the family courts, for increased media access for example, is going to harm children and is not what they want. The Children’s Commissioner investigated this...
View ArticleTransparency, debate and Satanists: A Plea to the Family Courts
Do you REALLY think that I am in fact Ricky Dearman? In convincing latex mask? are you REALLY that stupid? https://t.co/RZxWM6Z8nB — Sarah Phillimore (@SVPhillimore) July 20, 2016 I think it is...
View ArticleSocial Workers Speaking Out – What Should they Say?
This is a post from a social worker who wishes to remain anonymous. She discusses her frustration about the constraints on social workers speaking out about who they are and what they do and her...
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Happy Families – The conversations we are not having about adoption –...
On Saturday October 28th 2017 we gathered again, this time in London, for the ‘oral installation performance’ about adoption and the problems caused by lack of honest and open conversation about its...
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Opening up a closed system: The Second Bridget Lindley Memorial Lecture.
EDIT March 29th – you can now read a transcript and listen to the podcast here. I was very pleased to be in the audience for Louise Tickle’s lecture on March 13th in Birmingham, organised by the...
View ArticleAre you sitting comfortably? The Art of Story Telling
As a species we appear to be primed to impose a narrative on our experiences. We love stories and we need them. As Adam Gopnik commented in 2012, looking at the science behind storytelling:...
View ArticleWhy its time to open up the Family Courts
On Saturday 3rd November I attended a workshop at UWE organised by journalist Louise Tickle as part of her project to investigate opening up the family courts and recalibrate the balance between...
View ArticleWhy I no longer support opening up the family courts
This is a post by Sarah Phillimore Yesterday I was told that a published judgment in a family case had been the subject of an article in a tabloid newspaper. I am not going to link to either the case...
View ArticleTransparency Made Simple!
This is a post by Sarah Phillimore I was asked if I could re-state the law about confidentiality in family proceedings for the benefit of parents who want to talk about their proceedings publicly. What...
View ArticleWhat the internet can teach us about communication – and being better...
The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. Sydney J. Harris...
View ArticleWhat do children think about opening up the family courts?
There is serious concern that opening up the family courts, for increased media access for example, is going to harm children and is not what they want. The Children’s Commissioner investigated this...
View ArticleTransparency, debate and Satanists: A Plea to the Family Courts
Do you REALLY think that I am in fact Ricky Dearman? In convincing latex mask? are you REALLY that stupid? https://t.co/RZxWM6Z8nB — Sarah Phillimore (@SVPhillimore) July 20, 2016 I think it is...
View ArticleSocial Workers Speaking Out – What Should they Say?
This is a post from a social worker who wishes to remain anonymous. She discusses her frustration about the constraints on social workers speaking out about who they are and what they do and her...
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Happy Families – The conversations we are not having about adoption –...
On Saturday October 28th 2017 we gathered again, this time in London, for the ‘oral installation performance’ about adoption and the problems caused by lack of honest and open conversation about its...
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Opening up a closed system: The Second Bridget Lindley Memorial Lecture.
EDIT March 29th – you can now read a transcript and listen to the podcast here. I was very pleased to be in the audience for Louise Tickle’s lecture on March 13th in Birmingham, organised by the...
View ArticleAre you sitting comfortably? The Art of Story Telling
As a species we appear to be primed to impose a narrative on our experiences. We love stories and we need them. As Adam Gopnik commented in 2012, looking at the science behind storytelling:...
View ArticleWhy its time to open up the Family Courts
On Saturday 3rd November I attended a workshop at UWE organised by journalist Louise Tickle as part of her project to investigate opening up the family courts and recalibrate the balance between...
View ArticleWhy I no longer support opening up the family courts
This is a post by Sarah Phillimore Yesterday I was told that a published judgment in a family case had been the subject of an article in a tabloid newspaper. I am not going to link to either the case...
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