The Children and Family Court Advisory Service (Cafcass) confirmed that it will be making a joint statement with Napo next week. Both parties will work together to ensure that Cafcass managers are not putting family court staff under undue pressure in a bid to meet targets.
In a Parliamentary briefing paper published last week, Napo claimed that the number of care applications has risen by 70 per cent since November 2008 and average caseloads of Cafcass practitioners have grown from 12 to 20. The union had threatened industrial action. It claims that Cafcass managers are responding to the increase in cases and the expectation to improve performance by overloading staff with work.
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