Philip, Georgia; Bedston, Stuart; Youansamouth, Lindsay; Clifton, John; Broadhurst, Karen; Brandon, Marian; Hu, Yang; (2021) ‘UP AGAINST IT’ Understanding Fathers’ Repeat Appearance in Local Authority Care Proceedings. Nuffield Foundation, London, United Kingdom: England, UK.

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The growth in cases of care proceedings has raised questions about parents’ repeat involvement in the family justice system and what more could be done to prevent the same parents being involved in care proceedings more than once (recurrent care proceedings). There is some urgency to understand more about the high volume of recurrent care cases which, between 2007 and 2014, affected at least 43,500 mothers and 30,000 fathers. Studies by Broadhurst and Mason (2017, 2020) have generated a growing body of evidence about this vulnerable population of women, while in contrast, very little is known about fathers and the circumstances, extent and pattern of their repeat appearances in court and the subsequent outcome for their child. A key aim of this study has therefore been to bridge this gap in family justice knowledge about fathers and identify opportunities for policy and practice responses and development (Bedston, Philip, et al., 2019; Philip, Youansamouth, et al., 2020).

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