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The failure of the UK governments to include fathers and grandparents in their children's lives causing derangement at not seeing their children and are more and more resorting to extremes and suicide. This must end.

The Big lottery awarded us 10K to develop further our idea of a Mobile Family Information and Education Centre to travel arounf Scotland.

Grandparents are so worried for their grandchildren because of the rise in drug and alcohol homes that they asked the government for the right to try and protect them. The government said no!

Family law is claimed by millions to be unjust and unfair but the governments say it is ok the way it is. The people who administer the law need to be investigated, are they working for the best interests of the children.

The governments are full of lawyers judges social service personel. Is it a wonder that the system works for their benifit rather than for the benifit of the children.

Children can be trapped in a drug or alcohol addicted home if the carers obtain a court order isolating them from help.

An investigation into administration of family law. The demo we are staging is just for that. The governments say the family law is fair and just and does not discriminate so we feel the problem must iie in the administration.

There is a demonstration arranged for an investigation into family law administration

The unfair family laws gives one person ultimate power over children and all too often this power is used as a weapon to blackmail and alienate children from non-resident parents and grandparents without just cause.

The charter for Grandchildren was considered by the Scottish justice 1 ommittee on 2nd October 2007. Assurances were given that more power would be put behind it in the event of it not being made legal.

Governments have a drive on to cut costs everywhere and there are huge savings to be found if small changes are made to the unfair family laws that work in favour of the minority and are costing the public purse a fortune

Grandparents who suffer the effects of loneliness and depression because of separation from their grandchildren and family are not being adequately cared for.

We are pointing out that only grandparents can have the insight needed to prevent or detect early child abuse in the home because of their unique relationship with their own family.

Grandparents must be considered for protecting children due to the terrible figures ou today

Grandparents today feel the 'best interests of the children' have been replaced by cost being the priority. This centre will concentrate on the real interests of children by promotting 'The Charter for grandchildren' and 'The Parenting Agreement'

A social gathering for the family getting together at holiday time.

A grandparents love goes beyond their own when it is for their grandchildren.

The gap is all the children's agencies can only detect child abuse after the damage has been done. Grandparents because of their unique relationship with their grandchildren could intervene sooner if they had legal rights of contact.

Grandparents and their grandchildren have a special bond thay makes them perfect for early detection of child abuse in danger homes. Child agencies can only detect nafter the abuse has taken place.

It is our aim that grandparentsshould be relevent persons in their grandchildren's lives this is our plan to bring that goal closer for the protection of our children.

Grandparents having legal right of contact with their grandchildren can be a very effective force in detecting child abuse a lot earlier. Other agencies can only know after the abuse and the child is badly damaged.

Grandparents being irrelevent persons in their grandchildren's lives is preventing them detecting abuse of their grandchildren.

How grandparents can support NSPCC in putting a full stop to child abuse.

A grandparents view of the cold unfeeling way children are treated today by social services.

Why grandparents worry about their grandchildren when the one sided unfair family laws of today leave them open to abuse. The social services and NSPCC cannot cope with the rise in child abuse and how grandparents could fill that gap.

Highlighting the cruel unfair family laws of this country that allows and protects one parent to use children as weapons and blackmail in family disputes

NSPCC admits it cannot cope with calls fron children. Legal contact between grandparents and grandchildren could fill that gap.

Grandparents have jioned the SSCUP ti highlight discrimination against grandparents in not having contact with their grandchildren

Jimmy Deuchars ex chairperson of Grandparents Apart Self Help Group Scotland to go on the political trail.

Jimmy Deuchars has resigned from 'Grandparents Apart Self Help group Scotland' and intends to carry on campaigning for legal contact between grandparents and grandchildren and for fairer family laws.