Further Increases To Private Law Case Applications To Cafcass

Cafcass has released its monthly statistics from April 2019 to January 2020, showing an increase in new cases and the highest demand for the month of January on record. Between April 2019 and January 2020, overall there were 2,243 more cases than was seen in the same period the year previously, an increase of 4.4%. There was a total […]
Researchers Given Access To Rich Cafcass Databases

Researchers now will have access to the Cafcass case file data in a strategy to exchange knowledge and learning with key partners, so as to “gain a greater understanding of family justice issues and the diverse needs of children and families in family court proceedings.” Fully anonymised data on the Cafcass case files have now […]