NAPO
demystified:


Prejudice in
the writing
of welfare reports

What's this gotr to do with fathers after divorce The Real Power behind CAFCASS
NAPO OFFICIAL ON WHY FATHERS' PERSPECTIVE IS NOT RELEVANT:
"
... whether those advantages which men enjoy ... disadvantages them in matters concerning children, does not amount to sexism in NAPO's eyes, and is not a matter we see any need to have addressed.."[1]
The Chairman of FNF reports: "I once attended a seminar organised by NAPO on combating discrimination in court welfare reports. The sessions were on race, disability and sexual orientation, actually only lesbianism.

"At the end of the plenary I put a question: I have no issue with opposing all the types of discrimination discussed, but what about straight sex discrimination?

This drew the comment from the then vice-chair of NAPO and the person heading up their section on family policy.

"The question of whether those advantages which men enjoy in most areas of life, and to which they seem attached, disadvantages them in matters concerning children, does not amount to sexism in NAPO's eyes, and is not a matter we see any need to have addressed." - One Graham Walsh."

CONCLUSION
I therefore recommend that custody of the child be given - as per usual - to the mother.”

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Source: Graham Walsh, the then NAPO Vice President dealing with family matters, replying to questions from the floor at the National Association of Probation Officers Conference: 'Race, disability and sexual orientation'. Quoted by FNF Chair J.Barker in 2003 Letter to Magaret Hodge.

Related page : NAPO POLICY FOR PARENTS

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