Children's guardians are leaving the profession "in droves" because of increasing pressures from targets and red tape, according to a leading family lawyer.
Simon Heaney, a family law expert and court advocate at the law firm Heaney Watson in Liverpool, is concerned that experienced guardians are being lost because of a growing dissatisfaction with the role.
He says: "Legal guardians are leaving in droves. We are losing all the good ones because the processes are leaving those who want to work for the benefit of the child disenchanted. I know of at least four good guardians that have gone in Liverpool in the past six months."
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