The New South Wales child protection agency has directed that children in its care maintain their connection with a group that a Supreme Court jury has branded a "socially harmful cult"
Links between the cult group Universal Medicine and the Family and Community Services office at Lismore in far northern NSW have been found prompting the Office of the Children's Guardian to issue an internal ban on referring children to the controversial occult healing group.
The Family and Community Services care plans for two girls, who cannot be legally identified, endorsed their involvement in the Universal Medicine affiliated Girl to Woman Festival.
Ballina Shire councillors had been set to consider banning the festival but yesterday the organisers axed it all together.