Anthony Douglas, who took up his new role as chief executive of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service last Wednesday (1 September), told Children Now that one way of addressing staff shortages in some areas of the country would be to join with other organisations to act as a "recruitment and retention consortium".
Douglas has also committed to reviewing the way Cafcass deals with pressure groups such as fathers' rights organisations.
"We have contact with the fathers' groups who talk to us rather than send us rotten fish in the post and harass our staff," he said. "But we're going to review our policy towards them. It's clearly not a healthy situation and I would like it to be better. But we've got to get guarantees our own staff won't be subjected to publicity-seeking stunts."
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