Anna Gupta – The Conversation

Cutting all links between a child and its family should be the very last option. vlavetal/www.shutterstock.com

December 9, 2015

By rushing to speed up forced adoptions we are letting children down

Anna Gupta, Royal Holloway, University of London; Brid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield; June Thoburn, University of East Anglia; Kate Morris, University of Sheffield, and Sue White, University of Birmingham

England has far more forced adoptions than elsewhere in Europe. Is this right?

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July 28, 2014

Outrage at privatising child protection should spark an overhaul of the whole system

Anna Gupta, Royal Holloway, University of London; Brid Featherstone, The Open University; Kate Morris, University of Nottingham, and Sue White, University of Birmingham

The Department for Education’s proposal that for-profit companies could provide child protection services and other statutory functions for families caused a major public uproar this spring – and the furore…

Bad parenting? Bad policy. George Hodan

April 2, 2014

‘Cinderella law’ proposals are unhelpful and draconian

Sue White, University of Birmingham; Anna Gupta, Royal Holloway, University of London; Brid Featherstone, The Open University, and Kate Morris, University of Nottingham

It seems there is an emerging cross-party consensus on the need to change the criminal law on child neglect in this country. The most recent manifestation of this new consensus are new proposals to criminalise…

Harsh immigration policy makes it hard to stop abuse of migrant children. Richard Scott/PA

April 1, 2014

A rethink is needed on how to handle trafficked and migrant children

Anna Gupta, Royal Holloway, University of London

Over the past few years, policy-makers, academics and practitioners have paid more and more attention to children who are trafficked into and within the UK. But while children are trafficked for various…

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