number of really high—profile awful child deaths that have hit the headlines, and thinking about star hobsonrotection is something that we should be able, through this pilot, to see much more closely. and a couple of the authorities involved in those cases, some of the highest profile child deaths, are actually in this pilot. so will there be stories you haven't really been able to report before that you might now have access to? yes. and what it means is that we can actually follow these cases step—by—step. we can report what happens in court. we have access to the evidence gathered by social workers, the reasons why they say the children should be taken into care. we can talk to families, describe what happens in court. all of these are new and they are just in these three pilot centres. will audio or cameras be allowed in at all to record anything? no, not at all, not at all. this is still, in some ways, a very closed environment, so we are the only people in addition to the families, the local authorities, the children's guardian from the children's court advisory service who will be in

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number of really high—profile awful child deaths that have hit the headlines — i'm thinking about star hobsonshould be able, through this pilot, to see much more closely. and a couple of the authorities involved in those cases, some of the highest profile child deaths, are actually in this pilot. so, will there be stories you haven't really been able to report before that you might now have access to? yes, and what it means is that we can actually follow these cases step by step, we can report what happens in court, we have access to the evidence gathered by social workers — the reasons why they say the children should be taken into care. we can talk to families, we can describe what happens in court. all of these are new and they are just in these three pilot centres. will audio or cameras be allowed in at all to record anything? no, not at all, not at all. this is still, in some ways, a very closed environment, so we are the only people in addition to the families, the local authorities, the children's guardian from the court advisory service cafcass who will be in the court. if participant

number of really high—profile awful child deaths that have hit the headlines — i'm thinking about star hobsonhould be able, through this pilot, to see much more closely. and a couple of the authorities involved in those cases, will audio or cameras be allowed in at all to record anything? no, not at all, not at all. this is still, in some ways, a very closed environment, so we are the only people in addition to the families, the local authorities, the children's guardian from the court advisory service cafcass who will be in the court. if participants know that reporters are there, might it somehow distort the legal process? well you would think that's a possibility, and unfortunately, we haven't done a controlled experiment with this and spent time in these courts beforehand to judge whether it's different but certainly, when it comes to disturbing the normal process of the court, it doesn't seem like our presence has had that kind of impact. we know that there won't be any audio orfilming in these family courts but generally, is the legal system opening up to broadcasters? certainly. there

star hobson, arthur, these are names _ of the issues.at you mentioned really very, very i that enough? the cases that you | mentioned really very, very tragic and very upsetting and what i learned from the national panel report that annie hudson and her team did looking at what happened in those cases was identify the earlier intensive support for families that would help us identify the minority of parents and adults who might be posing significant harm to their children. and then we need to also as well as having a sharper child protection response make sure we are using the widerfamily protection response make sure we are using the wider family network which comes back to the point on kinship care, making all of those changes at a scale that will tip the system into a more positive direction will require £2.6 billion overfour years as my review set out. the approach that the government has taken which is 200 million over the first two years means we will start to make progress in that direction but it will take longer than four or fiv

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number of really high—profile awful child deaths that have hit the headlines — i'm thinking about star hobsonthe only people in addition to the families, the local authorities, the children's guardian from the children's court advisory service who will be in the court. if participants know that reporters are there, might it somehow distort the legal process? well you would think that's a possibility, and unfortunately, we haven't done a controlled experiment with this and spent time in these courts beforehand to judge whether it's different but certainly, when it comes to disturbing the normal process of the court, it doesn't seem like our presence has had that kind of impact. we know that there won't be any audio orfilming in these family courts but generally, is the legal system opening up to broadcasters? certainly. there is now the broadcasting of sentencing in criminal cases, which is quite significant, and there are certain other steps that the courts have been taking to try to make it easier for the press to do their work. i think certainly within the judiciary, there is a sense that o