YES - Jon Davies, chief executive, Families Need Fathers
Any child-focused charity such as ours needs to be concerned about such targets and the unintended effects they might have.
Without open processes we cannot know whether the cases we hear about through the grapevine are exceptions or the rule. Certainly the courts and Cafcass (the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) need more resources, but the biggest advance would be to open up the family courts to public scrutiny and some of the abuses which can arise from bodies striving to meet such targets will surely evaporate. Secrecy can lead to complacency.
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