MPs call for inquiry into use of ‘alienation’ claims in parental disputes

Concern that unregulated experts' diagnoses are being used to silence parents or undermine abuse allegations in England and Wales

An urgent inquiry is needed into unregulated psychological experts being used in high conflict disputes to diagnose whether one parent has attempted to alienate' their child from the other, MPs have said.

Opening a debate on family court reform in England and Wales, the MP for Coventry North West, Taiwo Owatemi, said false claims of so-called parental alienation were the most damning aspect of our family court system".