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Capital punishment for children's services: a new legal policy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Barry Jones
Barry Jones*
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Michael Rutter Centre, Maudsley Hospital, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, email: [email protected]
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Recent adverse changes to the interpretation of aspects of the Children Act 1989 have deleteriously combined with amendments to limit accessibility to the legal aid budget. A closer enquiry highlights that contradictions within government policy and the law have significant implications for struggling families, with adequate assessment and treatment being consistently withdrawn. As children's needs are left increasingly unanswered, the evident cycle of neglect and deprivation of children is obviated by the clinical situation within the Cassel hospital, the only remaining National Health Service (NHS) in-patient resource for whole families.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 32 , Issue 7 , July 2008 , pp. 241 - 244
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