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Government announces outcome of the review into the family court presumption of involvement of both parents in a child’s life

by reporting watch team | Oct 22, 2025 | FCReportingWatch, FOI, Trends

We’ve sent in a series of requests under the Freedom of Information Act about the review of the presumption of parental involvement since the ‘urgent’ review was announced by the government in 2020. We have been asking about the continued delay in publishing the...
The review of the presumption of parental involvement – latest news

The review of the presumption of parental involvement – latest news

by reporting watch team | Jan 28, 2025 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, FOI

As you can read about here, we’ve been regularly sending Freedom of Information requests to the Ministry of Justice about the ‘urgent’ review they were undertaking on the presumption of parental involvement. The statutory presumption that it’s in a...
The review of the presumption of parental involvement – latest news

The presumption and ‘contact culture’

by reporting watch team | Oct 2, 2024 | Comment, FOI

A legal presumption was introduced into the Children Act 1989 in 2014 that, in a contact dispute between separated parents, the continued involvement of both parents in their child’s life is in the child’s best interests. This has become increasingly...
The review of the presumption of parental involvement – latest news

The MoJ review of the presumption of parental involvement

by reporting watch team | Feb 11, 2024 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, FOI

We have now had a reply from the Ministry of Justice to our second annual request under the Freedom of Information Act about the ‘urgent’ (2020) review of the presumption of parental involvement. Details are explained in this post. In short, we have been trying to...
The Cafcass in-house psychological service – our unanswered questions

The Cafcass in-house psychological service – our unanswered questions

by reporting watch team | Nov 19, 2023 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, FOI

We wrote about the Cafcass in-house psychology service ‘that no one seemed to know about’ back in April and again in October. We received replies on 10 November from Cafcass Governance to our follow-up freedom of information questions. We weren’t...
National Psychology Service – Still in the dark

National Psychology Service – Still in the dark

by reporting watch team | Oct 4, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, FOI

UPDATE 25.11.23: We have now received replies to our follow-up questions and will publish these, and our views on them, next week. In April we wrote a blog post:  The ‘Psychology Service’ for family court cases that nobody seems to know about: The ‘Psychology...
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