SingleMum.com.au Expert Opinion Panel
Charles Pragnell, Advocate for Children and Families
Charles Pragnell is an independent Expert Defence Witness for Child Protection and has
given evidence to courts in England, Scotland, and New Zealand. Since 1990 he has
acted as an advocate/representative for children and families in child protection matters
and other proceedings involving various state agencies. Since 1996 he has made special
studies of issues involving Munchausen’s Syndrome By Proxy, Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome and Shaken Baby Syndrome
Charles has almost forty years of experience working directly with children and young
people as a social worker and senior manager of social services. He has undertaken
research for the National Children’s Bureau and other educational, social and health
services and appeared at national and international conferences presenting on children’s
issues (including child protection) and social policy, and lectured at English and Australian
universities. Charles is regularly published in journals in the U.K., South Africa and online.
He was a member of an international working party of social workers in child and family
services which was set up by the Federation Internationale de Communaute’ Educative to
produce an international Code of Ethical Conduct and Practice Principles for social
workers worldwide
Articles for SingleMum.com.au by Charles Pragnell
Children are reliable and truthful in their evidence of being abused
Marriage – it makes no difference to children
Should I tell the court what he’s really like?
Parental Alienation Syndrome…does it exist? When children reject a parent
An extensive index of the works of Charles Pragnell can be found on the NCCPS website here
