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Last broadcast on Sun, 29 Aug 2010, 20:30 on BBC News Channel (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Each year around 20,000 children have their futures decided by the family courts. Baby William Ward was one of them. His parents Jake and Victoria were investigated by police and social services when they were unable to explain a serious injury to their three-month-old son. It took them two years to clear their names and a further three years to win the right to speak completely openly about what happened to their family.
Panorama's Darragh MacIntyre reports on the case of this ordinary couple and their extraordinary fight to open up the world of the family courts.
Family put under pressure by child abuse accusation
Panorama follows the case of a couple investigated by police and social services after being unable to explain a serious injury to their three-month-old son.
It took Jake and Victoria Ward nearly two years to clear their names and a further three years to win the right to tell the full story of what happened to them.
During that time, Victoria kept an intimate video diary of her experience of the family courts and the strain it put her family under.
Parents' child abuse 'nightmare'
Panorama reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates the case of a couple wrongly accused of hurting their child and their battle to be able to name witnesses in the family courts.
Response from The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Please Don't Take Our Child - join the debate
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Credits
- Presenter
- Jeremy Vine
- Reporter
- Darragh MacIntyre
- Producer
- Asif Hasan
Broadcasts
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Mon 23 Aug 201020:30
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Thu 26 Aug 201004:30
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Fri 27 Aug 201000:35
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Fri 27 Aug 201001:35
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Sun 29 Aug 201020:30
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