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Cap on expert social work witness fees will be untenable, warns social work association

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Thursday, March 10, 2011

| CYP Now

Family courts are being warned they face an exodus of expert social work witnesses in May when their fees are capped.

Daily roundup: Forced Caesarean, eating disorders and cigarettes

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Monday, December 2, 2013

| CYP Now

MP pledges to raise case of Italian woman whose child was taken at birth; more children being treated for eating disorders; and Labour seeks to strengthen law around underage smoking, all in the news today.

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

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Friday, June 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Only non-profit organisations will be allowed to deliver child protection services under controversial government plans to give councils more freedom in the way they work with vulnerable children, it has been announced.

Care applications fall five per cent in July

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Thursday, August 10, 2017

| CYP Now

The number of new care applications fell five per cent in July compared with last year, latest figures show.

Care applications exceed 10,000 for first time

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

| CYP Now

Applications for children at risk of abuse or neglect to be taken into care have hit a new year-on-year high.

Family justice review seeks children's voices

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Friday, June 3, 2011

| CYP Now

Children's views are being sought by the panel conducting the review of the family justice system in England and Wales.

Social worker knowledge gap ‘threatens care proceedings targets'

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Thursday, July 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Social workers will struggle to meet Children and Families Act commitments to reduce the length of care proceedings, a survey by the Victoria Climbié Foundation (VCF) suggests.

High Court judge to succeed Munby as Family Division president

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

| CYP Now

A Court of Appeal judge is to replace Sir James Munby as England and Wales's most senior family court judge, the government has announced.

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

| CYP Now

An independent panel of experts will be created to vet the decisions of local safeguarding children board chairs under revised safeguarding guidance published today.

Expert witness fee cut could 'hinder' family court judges

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Monday, December 2, 2013

| CYP Now

Children's lawyers and social work bodies have raised concerns that it will be harder to find expert witnesses to give evidence in care cases due to a cut in fees paid to them through the legal aid system.

ADCS Conference: Local authorities challenged to improve care plans

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Friday, July 8, 2011

| CYP Now

Councils have been challenged to improve the quality of children's care planning to silence critics of the family justice review's proposal to reduce court powers of scrutiny.

Cafcass study highlights CSE learning from case reviews

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

| CYP Now

Victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) may be so influenced by abusers that they are unable to provide full or accurate accounts of their experiences to safeguarding professionals, analysis has concluded.

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

The number of children being made subject to special guardianship orders (SGOs) is continuing to rise, government figures have shown.

DfE tightens up special guardianship rules

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Thursday, December 17, 2015

| CYP Now

The Department for Education (DfE) is to take action after finding a "significant minority" of children are being placed at risk through inappropriate special guardianship orders (SGOs).

New care applications fall five per cent

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Thursday, November 14, 2019

| CYP Now

The number of new care applications for children being dealt with by the courts is continuing to fall, according to official figures.

Fresh drive to speed up care proceedings

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Monday, February 29, 2016

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders have unveiled a new tool to help social workers in their bid to speed up care proceedings.

Top judge Sir Nicholas Wall calls for better rights for unmarried couples

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Thursday, February 3, 2011

| CYP Now

England's top family judge has called for unmarried couples to get new rights to share property and money if they break up.

Family justice review seeks time limit for child protection cases in courts

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

| CYP Now

Courts should be forced to deal with all child protection cases within a statutory six-month time limit, according to a wide-ranging review of the family justice system.

Care applications reach new record high

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

| CYP Now

The number of care applications has risen by eight per cent in the past year, according to latest statistics from Cafcass.

Daily roundup: Care applications data, sex offenders' register and age of consent

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Thursday, May 9, 2013

| CYP Now

Care applications up 70 per cent; changes to sex offenders' register rules condemned, and barrister's age of consent comments dismissed as "outdated", all in the news today.

Use of expert witnesses in family courts is on the slide, finds Cafcass

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

| CYP Now

The use of expert witnesses in care proceedings cases, particularly independent social workers, has fallen radically over the last three years.

NCAS Conference: Pre-court work cuts care cases, study finds

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Monday, October 21, 2013

| CYP Now

Pre-proceedings case work in six councils piloting new ways of dealing with care applications cut the number of cases going to court by a quarter, analysis has shown.

'Unlawful' family court agreement axed

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Tuesday, August 15, 2017

| CYP Now

A joint agreement aimed at tackling delays in care proceedings has been ditched amid concerns it is unlawful and could lead to collusion between social workers and family court guardians.

26-week target ‘could limit help for substance misusing parents'

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Thursday, May 1, 2014

| CYP Now

The effectiveness of a specialist court to tackle parental substance misuse could be undermined as a result of the introduction of the 26-week care proceedings target, academics have warned.

Young people warn against opening up family courts

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

| CYP Now

Young people who have experience of care proceedings have spoken out against proposals to open up the family courts to the media and public.

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Cap on expert social work witness fees will be untenable, warns social work association

Daily roundup: Forced Caesarean, eating disorders and cigarettes

Profit-making firms to be prevented from delivering child protection

Care applications fall five per cent in July

Care applications exceed 10,000 for first time

Family justice review seeks children's voices

Social worker knowledge gap ‘threatens care proceedings targets'

High Court judge to succeed Munby as Family Division president

Revised Working Together guidance introduces checks on local safeguarding boards

Expert witness fee cut could 'hinder' family court judges

ADCS Conference: Local authorities challenged to improve care plans

Cafcass study highlights CSE learning from case reviews

Use of special guardianship orders continues to rise

DfE tightens up special guardianship rules

New care applications fall five per cent

Fresh drive to speed up care proceedings

Top judge Sir Nicholas Wall calls for better rights for unmarried couples

Family justice review seeks time limit for child protection cases in courts

Care applications reach new record high

Daily roundup: Care applications data, sex offenders' register and age of consent

Use of expert witnesses in family courts is on the slide, finds Cafcass

NCAS Conference: Pre-court work cuts care cases, study finds

'Unlawful' family court agreement axed

26-week target ‘could limit help for substance misusing parents'

Young people warn against opening up family courts

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