…involving unregulated psychologist Melanie Gill, whose evidence has been linked to children being removed from their mothers.
The incoming Victims’ Commissioner had called the use of unregulated experts a “national scandal” on a par with the Post Office injustice, but officials said a wholesale review would require analysis of hundreds of thousands of paper-based files and would not be a proportionate response.
The story set the stage for the landmark judicial intervention that would follow the next month, and is essential context for any practitioner instructing Psychology & Psychiatry Experts in children proceedings.