Expert witnesses provide an objective party to the family courts relating to children and young people across the country, as well as expert advice for fostering, adoption and special guardianship cases.
When Covid-19 lockdown took hold, it turned a face to face assessment service to a virtual assessment service overnight and affected the majority of cases that were already in progress, especially those that included an assessment of a child. With schools and contact centres closing, alongside visits to the home being considered dangerous in lieu of the pandemic, this resulted in little to no appropriate place to see a child.
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