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Cafcass
CAFCASS leave thousands of children fatherless, Why? No Training, No Proper Complaints, No Appeal, No Public, Not Needed and Not Wanted, "That's Why" Oct 31 2005 Every Day Matters? NEW directions for Cafcass - A consultation paper on a new professional and organisational strategy direction:- Please Read: Cafcass PDF
CAFCASS STATEMENT TO FATHERS ONLY? OPEN LETTER TO GROUPS REPRESENTING THE INTERESTS OF FATHERS IN PRIVATE LAW? Shouldn't this say all parents not just fathers! I wonder if these so called support groups F4J, FNF, Fathers Direct, ECT have consulted their membership on this complete pack of hype and tripe, if not then the leaders of these groups should be ashamed of themselves. Please reply to this hype and tripe The Family Court proceedings and CAFCASS leave thousands of children in Wales each year fatherless, Cafcass leaves a trail of heartache and confusion systematically removing caring fathers from their loved ones destroying deep bonded and loving relationships with the swish of a pen writing away years of father child development. The Unqualified Cafcass office was set up under the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000,prescribed by the act is Family courts are deeply secretive places. Every year in England and Wales, the parents of some 200,000 children pass through them. Judges are free to make whatever comments about these parents' behaviour or parenting they see fit and to make whatever orders they consider appropriate about the children's future. Their powers include the right to stop a parent seeing their child for any reason. (Unmarried fathers have no rights in law to see their own children at all, unless they can get a Parental Responsibility Order which gives them the same status as a married man.) There are no guidelines for post-divorce contact with children. It is almost impossible to appeal against decisions and there is no proper system for complaints. No one knows how - or if - the system is working since there are no case studies of the first one million cases which have been dealt with. In making their decisions, judges rely heavily on welfare reports drawn up by reporting officers. Formerly known as court welfare officers called cafcass reporters these influential figures advise judges on where children should live and how often the non-resident parent should be allowed see them. Their recommendations are usually rubber-stamped. Parental Alienation The Twilight Facts
The horrors of Cafcass the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service. 1.The majority of Cafcass Officers are ex probation officers used to dealing with hardened/petty criminals. 2.1 in 7 Cafcass officers as NOT received any training. 3.Cafcass officers have NO formal qualifications. 4.Shockingly, Cafcass officers training consists of just one 2 half-day course – less than a Traffic Warden. There is NO official training budget whatsoever. 5.Cafcass has NO defined guidelines and in 2007 still NO proper complaints procedure. 6.Cafcass keep NO records and do not research into the outcomes of the cases they have been involved in (e.g. figures on children's suicide and teenage pregnancy five years after CAFCASS involvement). This means they have NO way of knowing whether they are achieving the best outcomes for children and their parents. 7.To further compound problems, massive numbers of CWOs are leaving because of these problems. Cafcass faces a major recruitment crisis. 8.According to Dr Buchanan, ex-Head of the Family Division Research Team at Oxford University, Cafcass handles around 40,000 cases each year affecting an estimated 80 – 120,000 children per annum. 9.This equates to over a million children in the past decade alone. 10.According to Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, once President of the Family Division, 40% of fathers lose contact with their children after 2 years.
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