What happened to the Government's review of child care proceedings?
The Department for Constitutional Affairs has just published a set ofpapers covering practice in England and Wales in order to suggestimprovements to the system, and to ensure that resources are wellused.
So the review aims to cut public spending? The review arose from aninvestigation of civil legal aid. In its paper published in 2005, AFairer Deal for Legal Aid, the department indicated advice andrepresentation on family matters can be costly: while spending oncontact and residence cases had fallen, expenses in public careproceedings had risen by 77 per cent in real terms since 1999/2000.
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