The ‘task and finish’ group has been established by the Department for Education and NHS England in response to a report published by the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory last month which called for a complete overhaul of the support system for children subject to DoL orders.
The Nuffield FJO report includes figures from the National DoL Court – a specialist branch of the Family Court set up in July 2022 - which showed there were 1,389 DoL order applications mostly from local authorities in England and Wales in the year to June 2023. These related to 1,249 children, 96 per cent of whom were already in council care.
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