Are our children protected properly from drugs.

Added: (Sun Feb 05 2006)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Press release immediate use 5th February 2006

Are our children protected properly from drugs.

It has been reported there is 500,000 addicts in the UK, how many of them are passing it on to their children. 35,000 children under the age of 16 in UK are using heroin. Who is protecting them? The authorities refuse to give grandparents the right to try and protect them. The new family law bill to be made law this spring doesn’t help.

The main reason grandparents are cast aside is to prevent them finding out parents are having problems like splitting up, drink or drugs etc. At the moment grandparents have no legal rights to their own grandchildren and being termed irrelevant persons are refused contact with them. The law makes it all too easy to have them barred legally

Most parents have nothing to hide and grandparents are usually an asset to any young family and everyone is horrified to think otherwise.

Grandparents asked the government for a couple of hours visit a month by negotiation, the right to phone calls, send letters, birthday presents Christmas cards, and have the grandchildren know we exist and love them. Above all we want to try and fill the gap in the law that exists in the protection of children before they are damaged beyond help.

Will the governments never recognise the grandparent’s army of care for children?

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For more information contact;-
Grandparents Apart Self Help Group Scotland
Jimmy Deuchars
22 Alness Crescent
Glasgow G52 1PJ
0141 882 5658
e-mail jimmy@grandparents.co.uk
website;- www.grandparentsapart.co.uk