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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by reporting watch team | Apr 23, 2023 | FCReportingWatch, FOI
In March we saw a tweet from someone who had quoted a short extract from this study, which referenced a ‘psychology service’ used by Cafcass in England, and gave some statistics associated with it: namely that : ‘alienation/alienating behaviours was the most selected...
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