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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...
The ‘Psychology Service’ for family court cases that nobody seems to know about

The ‘Psychology Service’ for family court cases that nobody seems to know about

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...

The Ireland Report and the Fitness to Practise Panel in respect of Professor Ireland

by Lucy R | Jun 6, 2016 | Explanation

In 2012, the “Ireland Report” was published. It was highly critical of the standards of psychological reports prepared for the family courts, something that there had been rumbling concerns about for years. The Ireland Report has come back into the news again...

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