Cafcass Positive Parenting Programme (CPPP)

Cafcass are pushing their Positive Parenting Programme as a panacea to high conflict cases. Earlier ...

A Presentation on Parental Alienation by Anthony Douglas from Cafcass

Background On October 14th 2017 Anthony Douglas the CEO of Cafcass attended the Parental Alienation ...

Cafcass Training: what stories do they use to train their staff on the CIAF?

Cafcass have supplied a copy of some stories that they say they use when training ...

Cafcass Training on their new Child Impact Assessment Framework

Please provide the numbers of Cafcass employees, preferably broken down by service area, that have ...

Voice of the Child

Latest Family Law News Logan Mwangi trial: Five-year-old had ‘significant injuries’ 21st February 2022 A ...

Consultation outcome: School exclusions review

The Timpson review explored how headteachers use exclusion, and why pupils with particular characteristics are ...

Cafcass, evidence, and witnesses

Background If you are accused of a crime you have a right to have a ...

It’s time for the Judiciary to wake up

This week saw the publication of Re J (A Child - Intractable Contact) [2017] EWFC ...

Recognition of Significant Harm

When we talk about parental alienation and emotional harm and when experts link the two ...

Cafcass Library Parental Alienation Resources

In March 2016 a Researcher asked cafcass to disclose a list of articles and resources ...
children's services fail again

Parental Alienation, Safeguarding, Schools and Local Authorities

When two parents are at war (or in High Conflict...) the only safe ground for ...

Sarah Parsons talks about the Cafcass Tools Matrix

If you ask Cafcass how they determine the needs of a case they will refer ...

Cafcass Customer Satisfaction Survey 2017

Cafcass publish an Annual Report every year in which they often make statements about the ...

Spotlight on Sarah Parsons from Cafcass

Introduction You may have read our recent piece on Anthony Douglas, his approach to the ...

Child Maintenance Service – Policy, Law and Decision Making Guidance

In 2016 and 2017 we obtained copies of a set of documents called "Policy, Law ...

Updated (again): Cafcass, Douglas, and the High Conflict Pathway

In October of this year Anthony Douglas attended a Parental Alienation Workshop in London. He ...

CMS Full set of Policies and Procedures

In 2016 and 2017 we obtained a full set of the Child Maintenance Service Policies ...

Cafcass, MPs, and complaints

We know that many of our enquiries relate to service users who have complained to ...

Cafcass – Professional Indemnity Insurance

Professional Indemnity Insurance covers the following example items: Professional negligence - such as making a ...

Reducing the Impact of Interpersonal Parental Conflict on Children

The Early Intervention Foundation has published a helpful and practical planning tool to support local commissioners ...

Cafcass has been a disaster from Day One

As true today as it ever was... CAFCASS has been a disaster from Day One. Its ...

Cafcass and Case Workload 2016 and 2017

Much is made of how busy Cafcass FCAs are and the increases in case loads ...

Cafcass, the Judiciary, and reports of malpractice

Background We know that the Judiciary rely heavily on Cafcass to produce reports to the ...

Post-Separation Control and Parental Alienation Training Course

Click the blue button to start the training: Source Material: This elearning course was authored ...