The annual report of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) reveals that despite record numbers of care applications, there were just three unallocated cases by the end of March 2011.
This compares with 474 unallocated cases in March 2010, and 986 at the end of August 2009.
The report shows the improving picture comes despite continued high demand, showing that a surge in care applications since the Baby Peter case has been sustained.
In 2010/11, Cafcass received 11,986 new public law cases, of which 9,147 were care cases – up 3.6 per cent on the previous year’s unprecedented level.
In each month in 2010/11, except for June and December, care applications were at a record level for the specific individual month.
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