The whole issue of grandparents rights to see their grand children has changed. Where their rights may have been subject to doubt in the past, the position is clearer, in terms of the new Children’s Act – the whole Act, and the Regulations, having now come into force.

 

The Act makes special provision for people other than parents to have ‘parental responsibilities and rights’. This is in line with one of the main principles of the Act, that the whole ‘community’ of people around children, the wider family and others, form an integral and very important part of a child’s life.

 

It can be seen therefore, that the introduction of better rights for grand parents is in fact an extension of the ‘best interests of the child’.

 

An application to court is necessary to get defined rights in a court order.

 

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