Siân Cox joined Duncan Lewis Solicitors’ Navigating Family Law podcast to discuss fabricated or induced illness (FII) and the complex matters that can arise when concerns about a child’s health become safeguarding issues.
In Episode 24, Siân joins Family and Child Care Directors, Rupinder Jagdev and Krina Parmar, to explore the distinction between fabricated or induced illness, genuine parental concern, medically unexplained symptoms and “perplexing presentations”.
The discussion considers how FII concerns are identified and investigated, the importance of medical records and expert evidence, and the need to scrutinise alternative explanations for a child’s presentation. The panel also examines the impact that allegations can have on children and parents, including contact and parental involvement in medical care, and the approach of the family courts to complex cases involving potentially conflicting medical and safeguarding evidence.
Siân specialises in public and private children law and has extensive experience of complex cases involving medical evidence and allegations of significant harm.
Episode 24 of Navigating Family Law: Fabricated or Induced Illness is available to listen to now.
