• Nagalro calls upon the Secretary of State for Justice to review upwards the Legal Aid Agency benchmark for prior authority on the hours allowed for Independent Social Work Assessments, in the light of Dr Brophy’s Oxford University research. October 2013

• Nagalro seeks to work with ministers to ensure safeguards for children remain robust  September 2012

• Government response to Family Justice Review weakens safeguards for children  February 2012

• Family Justice Review endorses Guardian's role but ducks serious failures in current services  November 2011

• Justice Committee Report: Cafcass is not child-focused and requires major change  July 2011

• President's landmark judgment reasserting independence of Children's Guardians  July 2011

• MoJ ‘irrational’ approach to social workers harms children  December 2010

• Children must be protected from a failing Cafcass  November 2010

• Credibility of Cafcass Waiting Lists undermined  February 2010

• Justice Committee: no confidence in family law reform proposals July 2009

• Cafcass makes practitioners do the filing while children wait  May 2009

• Targets alone will not save children – they need high quality independent professionals who listen  May 2009

ISW expert witness campaign - a joint initiative with BASW and CISWA-UK to highlight the impact on children and families of the loss of independent social work expert witnesses in the family courts

• Joint Press Release: Senior judges back family court role for under-threat independent social workers  September 2013

• Joint Press Release: Oxford research findings explode myths about independent social work expert witnesses  April 2012

• Joint Letter from Nagalro, CISWA and BASW to Tim Loughton, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families re independent social work expertise
  November 2011

• Results of a Questionnaire completed by Nagalro members who provided ISW Assessments for the Courts during 2011  October 2011

• Press Release: Excluding independent social work expertise from courts is dangerous for vulnerable children  July 2010

   
• Press Release: Children will pay the price if social workers are excluded from being expert family court witnesses   April 2010
   
• Position statement: MoJ proposal that will limit availability of ISW expert witnesses 
  February 2010

• IAC Response to government consultation on co-operative parenting following family separation  September 2012

• IAC Response on government's revised safeguarding guidance: Working Together & Framework for Assessment September 2012

• IAC Briefing paper 1 on proposed Legal Aid bill (LASPO) and paper 2: Case studies  October 2011

• IAC letter to Immigration Minister re guardianship for trafficked children  June 2011

• IAC Press Release: Delivery of court services to children in family proceedings July 2010

• IAC Position Statement: Delivery of court services to children in family proceedings  July 2010

• IAC Parliamentary Briefing paper: Extension of media rights in family proceedings  January 2010

• Who Guards The Guardians - joint article published by ALC and Nagalro in response  to recent guidance in the Central Family Court on the need for guardians to justify attendance at care hearings  February 2016

• The Independent: Lack of Guardians leaves abused children at risk  August 2010

• Speech by Judith Timms OBE: Twenty five years of Guardians – where next?  April 2009