Legal Update: Family group conferences

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Children's rights | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal | Preventing Care Proceedings

Emily Blackshaw, lead quantitative analyst and Max Stanford,...

Legal Update: Tackling family court delays

• Legal | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass

Children's welfare is being harmed by ongoing backlogs in...

Legal Update: Guide to supervision orders

• Children's rights | Legal | Family courts and Cafcass

James Bury, head of policy, research and development at...

Legal Update: Relationships with the court

• Children's rights | Children's Services | Legal | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass

Alexandra Conroy Harris, legal consultant at CoramBAAF,...

Legal Update: Discharge of SGOs

• Children's rights | Children's Services | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal

Leonie Jordan, associate legal consultant at CoramBAAF,...

Inspecting Cafcass

• Ofsted | Family courts and Cafcass

Cafcass represents the interests of children subject to care...

Family court improvement forum

• Legal | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass

Louise Sims, kinship care and fostering consultant at...

Children’s letters give parents insight into the impact of their conflict

• Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Safeguarding and child protection | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service...

Special guardianship best practice guidance

• Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal | Kinship care

Dr Louise Sims, kinship care and fostering development...

Interview: Jacky Tiotto, Cafcass chief executive

• Family courts and Cafcass | Interview | Preventing Care Proceedings

Derren Hayes speaks to Jacky Tiotto, chief executive of...

Support for special guardians

• Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and public affairs at Coram...

Joining youth and family courts

• Family courts and Cafcass | Youth Justice | Courts and sentencing | Youth Offending

Experts assess the barriers to integrated youth and family...

The optimum place

• Commissioning | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Residential and specialist care

As the number of children in care continues to rise, Joe...

Legal Update: How to tackle repeat removals

• Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Safeguarding and child protection | Legal | Preventing Care Proceedings

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram...

Legal Update: Cultural matching in foster care

• Children's rights | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Legal | Foster Care

Reports of a child being placed with "inappropriate" foster...

Legal Update: Special guardianship orders

• Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Legal | Adoption

Serious case review highlights need for rigorous assessments...

Social Workers on the witness stand

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection

Giving evidence in court can be a daunting experience for...

Legal Update: Family courts and contact where there has been domestic violence

• Children's rights | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal

Frances Trevena, head of policy and programmes at Coram's...

The policy context on preventing care proceedings

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Preventing Care Proceedings

In the face of tightening council budgets and rising demand...

Special Report: Preventing care proceedings

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass

As the care system continues to come under increased...

Legal Update: Children seeking asylum in the UK

• Children's rights | Asylum | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal

Frances Trevena, head of policy and programmes at Coram...

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Young parents | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the...

Legal Update: Legal aid changes and family law

• Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal

Kirsten Anderson, legal research and policy manager at...

Careers: Family court adviser

• Careers | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass

A rise in care applications has led to greater demand for...

Out-of-court advocacy

• Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass

A pioneering scheme is aiming to transform the role of...

Voice of the child in the Family Justice Review

• Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Legal

Children's Legal Centre legal researcher Jo-Anne Prud'homme...

Interview: David Norgrove, chair, Family Justice Review

• Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Interview

Family Justice Review chair David Norgrove faces the tough...

Ask the Experts: How do I get festive in the nursery?

• Nurseries | Family courts and Cafcass | Safeguarding and child protection | Mentoring | Uniformed

Our expert panel offers advice on Christmas preparations,...

The Team Around the Relationship, Brighton & Hove

• Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Preventing Care Proceedings

Brighton & Hove City Council's relationship-based practice...

Cafcass Plus

• Family courts and Cafcass | Preventing Care Proceedings

Programme that introduces a family court adviser into the...

Action for Children - Multisystemic therapy, Manchester

• Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Youth Offending | Preventing Care Proceedings

Intensive, home-based programme supporting young people on...

Early FDAC (Families Do Achieve Change)

• Drugs and alcohol | Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Preventing Care Proceedings

Pre-proceedings version of the Family Drug and Alcohol...

Legal Update: FDAC works to keep families united

• Children's Services | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Safeguarding and child protection | Legal | Preventing Care Proceedings

Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram...

Skills for the Job: Support children post-adoption

• Careers | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption

Ensuring the needs of adopted children and young people are...

Legal Update: Court Report - Mother fakes child's death to stop contact

• Safeguarding in education | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Safeguarding and child protection | Courts and sentencing | Legal

Case name SA v BN (contact order) Case number [2013] EWHC...

The Discharge of Care Orders: A Study of England and Wales

• Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Foster Care | Residential Children's Care | Adoption

This study by researchers from the University of Bristol set...

Permanence for disabled children and young people through foster care and adoption: A selective review of international literature

• Special Educational Needs | Disabled children and young people | Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Adoption

Review discusses concerns and policy directions regarding...

Special Report: Preventing care proceedings - Research evidence

• Drugs and alcohol | Families/Parenting | Family courts and Cafcass | Preventing Care Proceedings

The research section for this special report is based on a...

Special Report: Attachment and Neglect - Research Evidence

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect