Perhaps it is the way this item has been presented, but the notion that the NSPCC is calling for a specific law to ensure that parents, step-parents and carers are only given unsupervised access to children, following separation, where courts can be sure no physical, sexual or emotional abuse will take place seems fraught with danger.
Will the courts be required to 'risk assess all separated parents, step-parents and carers? Will parents without a history of violence be exempt from this assessment? Will it be the absent parent who is assessed, even if the absent parent is not driving the separation? Will the parent who maintains care be assumed innocent? If a parent is accused maliciously, will they be guilty until proven innocent? If abuse does occur, will the courts be held accountable for not having upheld this law?
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