Cafcass
‘Children and Families Court Advisory and Support Service’ gives us the acronym ‘Cafcass’. The function of Cafcass is to advise the court about what is in the best interests of the child whom it...
View ArticleOpen letter from CAFCASS on their approach to domestic abuse
The following letter from CAFCASS was received in response to our blog post blog following the Westminster event ‘What about Henry?’ : What About Henry? An interesting discussion about how we deal with...
View ArticleOur comments on the proposed new CAFCASS Operating Framework
The response below was sent to CAFCASS today. This is a response to the invitation by Cafcass to comment upon the draft Operating Framework issued here in July :...
View ArticleWhat we’re thinking: the Family Court Adviser’s article
An anonymous family court adviser (CAFCASS Officer) wrote an article for the Guardian this week: What I’m really thinking: the family court adviser. The strapline reads “Both parents are usually...
View ArticleCafcass response to the Transparency Project comments on their draft revised...
On 11 August, the Cafcass policy and communications team emailed us in reply to our comments on their revised framework. We explain what they said below. We will now write again, as well as alert them...
View Article“It blew up too soon for us” – CAFCASS explain their position on alienation
On 17 November the Guardian ran a front page article by Amelia Hill about a “groundbreaking” new trial that CAFCASS were running, to tackle parental alienation. It contained substantial quotes from...
View ArticleA fork in the road – Cafcass and their pathways
A little while ago we wrote some about Cafcass’ new proposed High Conflict pathway, which had been hailed in the press as a big thing in terms of dealing effectively with parental alienation. We had...
View ArticleCafcass, parental alienation and the law
This front page headline in The Guardian grabbed attention on 17 November 2017 : ‘Divorcing parents could lose children if they try to turn them against partner. Measures being trialled to prevent...
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‘Children and Families Court Advisory and Support Service’ gives us the acronym ‘Cafcass’. The function of Cafcass is to advise the court about what is in the best interests of the child whom it...
View ArticleWhere’s me DAPPs? (the end of perpetrators’ programmes)
(Excuse the title for this post. The writer is from Bristol.) When a father who is involved in proceedings concerning his child has been found to have perpetrated domestic abuse against the other...
View ArticleNational Psychology Service – Still in the dark
UPDATE 25.11.23: We have now received replies to our follow-up questions and will publish these, and our views on them, next week. In April we wrote a blog post: The ‘Psychology Service’ for family...
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The Cafcass in-house psychological service – our unanswered questions
We wrote about the Cafcass in-house psychology service ‘that no one seemed to know about’ back in April and again in October. We received replies on 10 November from Cafcass Governance to our...
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