There are a number of closely related issues which John Hemming has been researching and campaigning on.

• Paediatric Medical Ethics and the use of Secret Medical Files

• The Use of Medical Evidence in Child Protection Cases

• Reform of the Public Family Law

Parent’s Protest

Brave Parents' Weeklong Protest. From 12th – 16th March 2007 two brave parents protested about their treatment by Social Services calling for reform of the adoption system in the UK.

Speeches / Weblog

John Hemming has made a number of Key Speeches in the House of Commons about these issues, and the issues have been covered in a wide range of newspapers and journals.

John's weblog – www.johnhemming.blogspot.com – gives up to date information and analysis on these issues.

Statistics

We have located many important statistics which demonstrate statistically that the UK's "Child Protection" systems don't actually protect children from dying as a result of child abuse.

• Stats on deaths of babies from child abuse

• Stats on deaths of babies generally

We used to be better than the Old EU (pre 2004) average, but are now worse. We are also in the process of analysisng the 2005 figures. When these are complete we will publish them here.

For links to these and more statistics re: care system please visit the Statistics page

Failures of intervention - stories about cases where things have gone wrong and children have died. This can be where children in care have died or it could be when children have died (often at the hands of their parents) when intervention could have helped.