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Westminster Hall
Child Arrangements: Presumption of Parental Involvement - Wed 22 Jan 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Marie Tidball (Lab - Penistone and Stocksbridge) Yet, on a two-hour contact visit permitted by a family court and allowed to go ahead by that same CAFCASS - Speech Link
2: Marie Tidball (Lab - Penistone and Stocksbridge) also need to ensure that no interim contact takes place before assessments are fully completed by CAFCASS - Speech Link
3: Sarah Sackman (Lab - Finchley and Golders Green) His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service has complaints processes and, in my hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None It concerns the right to delete malicious complaints. - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) To have an individual who has never met you decide to use an anonymous profile to make complaints about - Speech Link
3: None We know that abusers will use all sorts of legal complaints and legal processes as a form of abuse in - Speech Link
4: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) In my experience, Cafcass is well equipped to do that. The causes are more difficult to understand. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Criminal Justice Bill (Fifteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 15th sitting - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alberto Costa (Con - South Leicestershire) repeat that response, in addition to giving me another one about the person to whom I should direct complaints - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) structure and dynamics, and of the circumstances of the children concerned, and will not have input from Cafcass - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health and Care Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Wed 09 Feb 2022
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Ormond Street Hospital, almost £35,000 that his parents had to fundraise for, and £32,500 spent by Cafcass - Speech Link
2: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) Sometimes residents are even threatened with eviction or actually evicted in reprisal for complaints - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) That can be done both with the care home, which has a legal obligation to operate a complaints procedure - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill - Wed 21 Apr 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) That is because there are protocols in place, involving the judiciary, magistrates and Cafcass family - Speech Link
2: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) The protocol is in place and has been endorsed at the highest level by the judiciary and Cafcass. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) In the e-learning, SafeLives, Cafcass and Cafcass Cymru and IDVAs have all contributed to the films provided - Speech Link
4: None We should allow the super-complaints process to take its proper course. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Thu 15 Apr 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Contact Centres accreditation framework and existing protocols, which ensure that the family courts and CAFCASS - Speech Link
2: None for family justice, has written to the president of the family division and the chief executive of CAFCASS - Speech Link
3: Theresa May (CON - Maidenhead) I am very pleased to be able to say that this is, I think, the first use of the police super-complaints - Speech Link
4: None the Minister that from my experience of more than 20 years as a constituency MP, telling me that CAFCASS - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill
Report stage - Wed 10 Mar 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) The NACCC and the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, Cafcass, agreed a memorandum - Speech Link
2: None the judicial protocol and memorandum of understanding that has been agreed between the NACCC and Cafcass - Speech Link
3: None to follow up on this debate with the President of the Family Division and the chief executive of Cafcass - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill
Report stage - Mon 08 Mar 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Uddin (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Later in this Bill, we will be discussing the role of Cafcass and the family court in instructing contact - Speech Link
2: Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB - Life peer) I also disagree with the view of Cafcass and, for these reasons, I do not support the amendment. - Speech Link
3: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (CB - Life peer) This is what Cafcass is for. They know what it is and can recognise it for what it is. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) Cafcass is clear that there are a number of reasons why a child might resist time with, or be hostile - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 6th sitting (Hansard) - Wed 10 Feb 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None In so many cases, victims’ complaints to the police have been ignored, not taken seriously, largely disbelieved - Speech Link
2: None When complaints are made, when offenders are released from custody and when they attack victims, there - Speech Link
3: Baroness Newlove (CON - Life peer) relationship, leaving my mum with major debts and a child to look after.I faced the rigmarole of Cafcass - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Domestic Abuse Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 4th sitting (Hansard) - Wed 03 Feb 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None Research published in 2017 by Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB - Life peer) I have no doubt that Cafcass gets training. - Speech Link
3: None In that context, I know that both Cafcass and the judiciary have recently piloted new domestic abuse - Speech Link
4: None Cafcass has contracts with a number of supervised child contact centres to provide a fixed number of - Speech Link
5: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) The police are overloaded—they are very busy, as I know well from my work with the Police Complaints - Speech Link