British CAFCASS Hell

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS) is a national non-departmental public body for England which safeguards and promotes the interests of children involved in family court proceedings (not criminal) as defined by the Children Act2004. However all the reports shows how CAFCASS keeps fails with reports and most of the time works for mothers favor so regardless how bad mother can be because CAFCASS will be on abusive parent always so think and think, read the reports below.. Decision is yours and dont let CAFCASS waste your life..

CAFCASS seeks to ensure that children’s voices are heard and their needs are met during legal proceedings concerning:
• parents separating or divorcing who have not reached an agreement about the arrangements for their children
• when social services have become involved and children may be removed from their parents’ care for their safety
• children involved in adoption.

CAFCASS officers are independent of the courts, social services, education, health authorities and all similar agencies. As qualified social workers, they are responsible for providing advice to the courts about applications made to it during proceedings, making provision for children to be represented in such proceedings and providing information, advice and support for children and their families.

BBC :Judge Graham Cliffe, who is based in York, told BBC File on 4 that support for children from Cafcass (Children and Family Court Advisory Service) was at a crisis level in his region of North Yorkshire.
“Make no mistake about it, vulnerable children are being sold short and many of us are very concerned,” he said.
He believes that a backlog of cases means there are delays in children’s cases coming to court.
Cafcass chief executive Anthony Douglas rejected these claims and said that North Yorkshire was the only court area out of 40 where the service did not have a working agreement on caseloads but he hoped to have one soon.
The service, which acts for children in care and those at the centre of dispute between divorced couples, is facing an unprecedented caseload.
Critics claim children are being affected by emergency measures introduced last summer to reduce the backlog of cases.
Each child should have a Cafcass guardian who investigates the child’s case and speaks on its behalf to the court.
Guardians have a statutory responsibility to scrutinise a local authority’s plans to make sure the children’s best interests are safeguarded in care proceedings.

Bernardos: Vulnerable children are being “damaged” by delays in care proceedings in England and Wales, a charity has said. Barnardo’s wants to see a 30-week limit after figures showed children waited an average of 57 weeks – sometimes in abusive homes – for county courts to make care or supervision orders. In family courts, proceedings took an average of 45 weeks, it said. A Ministry of Justice spokesman said the government was “committed to reducing unnecessary delays”.

Figures obtained by Barnardo’s show that at the end of 2008 there were a total of 8,677 care cases in court, some of which may involve more than one sibling. By the end of 2009, that number had risen by 50% to 12,994. According to the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) in England, new applications accounted for less than half of this increase – suggesting the courts were taking longer to close a significant number of cases, it argued.

 

Just the some of the kids, children killed by CAFCASS or Social Services as might knows as Families Forward .. http://kidsjustice.org/FailedByServices.aspx