The Family Rights Group proposes that some criminal cases involving 10- to 15-year-olds be transferred to the family law system if the young person’s behaviour can be attributed to their home circumstances or to neglectful or abusive parenting.
Such a move would divert scores of children away from the criminal justice system.
The organisation also proposes that at the child protection stage of family law proceedings, families should be routinely offered a family group conference.
This would promote a partnership between the local authority and the child’s extended wider family, who would be supported to take a lead in drawing up a safe plan for a child at risk.
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