Australian institutions can act urgently to protect a child but remain unclear about who must gather the evidence, review the restriction, correct the record and repair avoidable harm afterwards.
Human rights must protect people from dangerous relationships
They must also prevent interim action, institutional delay or error from causing avoidable rupture of safe and significant family relationships.
My new Relational Justice article proposes one governing rule:
Institutions should use the least relationally disruptive effective intervention consistent with safety and relational continuity—and remain accountable for what their intervention produces.
Read the article at https://alienatedtoo.substack.com/p/human-rights-should-protect-family?r=3rl5f5.
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