Sir James Munby, until recently president of the Family Division of the High Court, has been appointed as chair of the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, currently being established to support best practice in the family justice system.
In 2016 you warned that the care system was "facing crisis". Have things improved or got worse - is the system in crisis now?
The system is in crisis. The rate of increase in care cases has slowed down, but it is at an unprecedented level. It is at a level that the courts can't really cope with. The volume of cases is going up, but resources available to deal with them are not. The fact that there is a continuing crisis is exemplified by statistics showing it is taking longer to deal with cases.
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