Cafcass confirm increase in children entering care system
Cafcass has released for the first time a full month by month total of care proceedings applications received since 2005.
The statistics include data from the period April 2005 to March 2009 and covers care proceedings applications made by local authorities where Cafcass has been appointed by the court to represent the interests of children.
Care applications, in the immediate aftermath of the closure of the criminal case into the murder of Baby Peter, rose sharply. This trend has continued at significant levels and represents a shift in intervention thresholds by local authorities. The figure for March 2009 was the highest monthly figure ever recorded by Cafcass - amounting to an increase of 37.9% compared to March 2008. However when annual totals are compared the figures for 2008-09 are broadly comparable with the previous three years.
Care Proceedings will continue to increase ten fold,and Parents will be left high and dry, with the new Legal Aid payments to Barristers reduced, which will force them out of Public Law Cases, leaving Parents to represent themselves, result a Baby boom, for Local Authority's
ReplyDeleteCafcass are also failing by as much as 75%, in various parts of the Country,especially the East,and West Midlands.
NOT MUCH HOPE FOR PAIN,and my clients.
Alison Stevens Parents Against Injustice..