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The Daily Mail 5th March 2009.
Protesters demand grey rights
GRANDPARENTS from across Scotland yesterday gathered to demand better access rights to their grand- children when families break down. Dozens attended a protest in Glasgow's George Square to high- light the issue.
Organisers claim that grandparents frequently lose out when a marriage or relationship involving youngsters fails. And campaigners say that social workers often put children into care when they would be better off living with their grandparents.
Jimmy Deuchars, of pressure group Grandparents Apart UK, said: 'Grandparents are at the very bottom of the list when itcomes to rights. 'We're regarded as trouble- makers if we say a word against anything that is happening.'
The Executive insists that the decision to remove a child from their natural family is never taken lightly and officials always con-sider carers in the wider family.
But John Swinburne, former MSP for the Scottish Senior Citi-zens Unity Party, said: 'In the past, if children were taken away from their parents, the first thing that would happen was that they'd be given to the grandparents. 'There was always an unofficial network of kinship carers. It's deplorable that any child should be deprived of the chance to seetheir own grandparents.'
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