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In this issue: Practice and procedure Financial provision Private children Public children LexTalk®Family: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Updated content Useful information Practice and procedure Transparency reporting pilot in the Family Court extended to include private children cases On 15 July 2024, the President of the Family Division’s Transparency Implementation Group (TIG) broadened the Family Court reporting pilot to cover private children proceedings across the 16 courts that were added to the pilot in January 2024. This extension is intended to assess more fully the effects of reporting on the court system, on judges, on participants in family proceedings, and on the media. See: LNB News 15/07/2024 75. Guidance for designated family judges engaging with the media in transparency reporting pilot courts The President has released guidance for designated family judges on working with the media in courts participating in the transparency reporting pilot. Although journalists have been allowed to...

This Practice Note offers practical guidance on the frequently debated question of which local authority should be designated for section 31 of the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989). Specifically, it examines and clarifies: the distinct statutory criteria governing designation for both care orders and supervision orders in such cases for care orders, whether and to what extent A v A (Children: Habitual Residence) (Reunite International Child Abduction Centre) influences the understanding of ‘ordinary residence’ in particular the operation of the ‘stop clock’ in ChA 1989, s 105(6), and the effect of amendments to ChA 1989, s 22 introduced by the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 on the definition of a looked after child in this context General principles The Family Court may not issue a care order or a supervision order in the abstract. Any such order must identify the local authority charged with the responsibility of caring for, or supervising, the child in question. The order must, therefore, designate...