Children’s centre services in Portsmouth will be reduced after the local authority announced 21 positions are to be made redundant. The Portsmouth News reported the 34 locations for the Sure Start children’s centres would remain open, but provision would be scaled back. The announcement follows protests over the threat of closures by parents. Portsmouth City Council faces a central government funding reduction of £17m for 2013/14.
The number of international family legal disputes, in which UK courts intervene, has nearly quadrupled in four years, a new report by the Office of the Head of International Family Justice for England and Wales has shown. The report, released to the BBC, revealed 253 cases were handled in 2012, up from 65 in 2008. Cases where parents leave the country with children include custody battles, child protection proceedings, inter-country adoption and forced marriages.
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