Just under half (45 per cent) of professionals who took part in a survey by the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (FJO) said they support calls for a review of such orders, which can be put in place during care proceedings to ensure the child is kept safe where the court decides that a child should remain with, or return to, their parents.
The same respondents said they also think some changes are needed to make them more effective.
The survey comes following the publication of a report by the Public Law Working Group – which was set up by the president of the Family Division to investigate steep rises in public law cases – which recommends that the government should review supervision orders with the aim of providing “a more robust and effective form of a public law order”.
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