Home News & Resources News & Resources Please see our latest News articles below. From Active Participants to Passive Auditors: Nagalro's concerns about the diminishing role of the Children's Guardian 21 Oct 2019 Introduction Applications to remove or replace the children’s guardian are rare enough. A successful application, rarer still. The decision of Mrs Justice Theis, in LR v A Local Authority & Others [2019] EWFC 49 (Fam), in which the court... Read more Response President’s consultation Best Practice Child Protection Recommendations to achieve best practice in the child protection and family justice systems 30 Sep 2019 Nagalro welcomes the opportunity to respond to this consultation and thanks the various working groups for their work and their recommendations. In general terms, we welcome the recommendations and believe practice would be greatly enhanced if the... Read more IAC response to consultation on revised safeguarding Guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children 24 Sep 2019 INTERDISCIPLINARY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION ON REVISED SAFEGUARDING GUIDANCE Working Together to Safeguard Children Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families1 Download full response here Read more Nagalro Press Release raising concern about the role of the Guardian 04 Sep 2019 Nagalro is concerned that Cafcass public statements have disseminated inaccurate information on its website, which appear to dilute the role of the Children’s Guardian and minimise their legal obligations. A number of recent judgments have... Read more Response President’s consultation The Child Arrangements Programme private law 01 Sep 2019 Download Consultation PDF Read more Response MoJ Call for Evidence – Assessing risk of harm to children and parents in private law children cases 01 Aug 2019 Download Consultation PDF Read more Response to President's Guidance on reporting in Family Courts 02 Jul 2019 Response by Nagalro to the Presiden'ts draft Guidance to reporting in the Family Courts 2 July 2019 Download consultation here Read more Social Workers and Children's Guardians in the family justice system A research based future 21 May 2019 A talk by Sir James Munby at the 30th anniversary celebration of Nagalro at Gray’s Inn on 21 May 2019 Download presentation here Read more Response Social Work England Consultations 01 May 2019 SWE Fitness to Practice Rules - 2019 Download Response fitness to practise pdf SWE Professional Standards - 2019 Download Response professional standards pdf SWE Qualifying Education and Training Standards - 2019 Download Response... Read more On-going ISW pay Freeze endangers most vulnerable children 29 Apr 2019 This month the Legal Aid Agency reissued its Guidance on the Remuneration of Expert Witnesses1. This document, together with regulations made in 2013, fix the payments which can be made by the Legal Aid Agency where experts prepare reports for the... Read more Review of anonymised judgments on Bailii: Children, privacy and ‘jigsaw identification’ 01 Oct 2018 A review of anonymised judgments on Bailii: Children, privacy and ‘jigsaw identification’ Julia Brophy, with Kate Perry and Eleanor Harrison Download document here October 2015 Read more Practice Direction 27a – Family Proceedings: court bundles 31 Jul 2018 https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/family/practice_directions/pd_part_27a 31 July 2018 Read more Nagalro Guide to the Cafcass Professional Time Guidance 2019 How to Interpret and Lawfully apply Cafcass' 'Draft Guidance on the use of Professional Time 25 Jul 2018 Download document here Read more Nagalro Press Release re Nagalro Guide to the Cafcass Professional Time Guidance 25 Jul 2018 Cafcass and Cafcass Cymru’s ‘Draft Guidance on the Use of Professional Time to Benefit Children’ came to Nagalro’s attention a year ago. Here, Judith Timms OBE, Nagalro Policy Consultant, explains the decisive action Nagalro has taken to air... Read more Nagalro Joins Voices Condemning FDAC National Unit Closure 13 Jul 2018 Nagalro Joins Voices Condemning FDAC National Unit Closure Download consultation here Read more President’s Guidance: Listing Final Hearings in Adoption cases 20 Apr 2018 https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/pfd-guidance-doption.pdf 10 April 2018 Read more Child Welfare professionals warn of unacceptable risks arising from time managed Cafcass Policies 10 Apr 2018 LEADING CHILD WELFARE PROFESSIONALS WARN OF UNACCEPTABLE RISKS ARISING FROM TIME MANAGED CAFCASS POLICIES For immediate release on 10 April 2018 Nagalro and seventeen other professional bodies and individuals have issued a Joint Position... Read more Contact: a point of view Lord Justice McFarlane 05 Mar 2018 Speech by Lord Justice McFarlane at the Nagalro Annual Conference 2018 Keynote Address: Contact: a point of view Download speech here Read more Response to the FRG Care Crisis Review A sector-led review of the rise in applications for care orders 15 Jan 2018 Nagalro Response to Care Crisis Review - A sector-led review of the rise in applications for Care orders and the number of children in care facilitated by Family Rights Group Download response here Read more Response proposed amendment to bundles: PD-PD 27A 15 Sep 2016 CONSULTATION REGARDING THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO BUNDLES: PD-PD 27A Download consultation here Read more Back to News Home First12345Last