This conference looks at the impact of children and young people of failures to protect them from many years of persistent neglect. These are the children who, for whatever reason, were not removed from home and continued to struggle to care for themselves and sometimes other siblings to survive in a situation where the adults could not, or would not, keep them safe and secure. Courts have to be mindful of the child/young person's human right to family life. How can this be balanced against the known impacts on children living in neglectful families?
Chair of the Conference: Martha Cover, barrister and joint head of Coram Chambers