Cafcass and other Organisations
A researcher wanted to know who Cafcass have been meeting with and when to discuss issues that affect parents and impact on the children in their cases:
1. Please confirm the dates on which you have hosted face-to-face discussions with Men’s Aid in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
- 25/02/2015
- 15/05/2015
- 19/11/2015
- 01/09/2016
2. Please confirm the dates on which you have hosted face-to-face discussions with Families Need Fathers in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
- 07/04/2014
- 30/07/2015
- 10/11/2015
- 07/07/2016
- 19/01/2017
- 05/04/2017
3. Please confirm the dates on which you have hosted face-to-face discussions with the Family Law Society in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
Please see below for the dates when Cafcass met with the Law Society for 2017. Please note that Cafcass does not have this information for previous years.
- 23/06/17
4. Please confirm the dates on which you have hosted face-to-face discussions with Women’s Aid in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Please see below for the dates when Cafcass met with Women’s Aid in 2016 and 2017. Please note that Cafcass does not have this information for 2014 and 2015.
- 23/03/2016
- 08/07/2016
- 03/08/2016
- 09/03/2017
- 03/05/2017
5. Please confirm the dates on which you have hosted face-to-face discussions with Gingerbread in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
Cafcass has not hosted face to face not meetings with Gingerbread for these years.
6. Please confirm the dates on which you have hosted face-to-face discussions with representatives from the Department of Work and Pensions in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Cafcass has not hosted face to face not meetings with DWP for these years.
7. Please provide a list of organisations, apart from the ones that I have identified above, that you have hosted face-to-face discussions with in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.
Cafcass does not centrally record this information.
We’ll be returning to this topic in future posts.
In a Family Law system designed for combative parents there is no real allowance for the views of children and any understanding of how Family Law ultimately impacts on children most of all.
We speak for the children in Family Law so that, finally, the children have a voice.