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Child Welfare professionals warn of unacceptable risks arising from time managed Cafcass Policies

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

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

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

CONSULTATION REGARDING THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO BUNDLES: PD-PD 27A Download consultation here Read more

Response to consultation on McKenzie Friends

Nagalro response to Reforming the courts’ approach to McKenzie Friends - A Consultation Download consultation here Read more

Open letter in response to DoE paper: Adoption - a vision for change

March 2016

Open Letter from Nagalro in response to the policy paper: Adoption:  A vision for change (Department of Education, March 2016) Download letter here Read more

Open Letter from Nagalro in response to policy paper: Adoption: A vision for change (DoE), March 2016)

Open Letter from Nagalro in response to the policy paper: Adoption: A vision for change (Department of Education, March 2016) Download here Read more

Joint ADCS, Cafcass and ADSS Cymru s20 Practice Guidance

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Submission regarding Lords EU Home affairs inquiry unaccompanied minors in EU

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Transparency Project: s20 Practice Guidance

This guide is about making decisions to use s.20 and how it should be done.  It is not a legal document. Download here Read more

HHJ Bellamy Practice Guide: the use of Section 20 of the Children Act

HHJ Bellamy Practice Guide: the use of Section 20 of the Children Act Download article here February 2016 Read more

Who Guards the Guardians?

Article by Nagalro and ALC published in Family Law

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Nagalro Response to the Family Procedure Rule Committee on children vulnerable persons

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Nagalro urges review of LAA benchmark for prior authority on hours allowed for ISW assessments

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... Read more

Response to Government consultation on Special Guardianship

Nagalro Response to the Government Consultation on Special Guardianship 16 September 2015 Download PDF here Read more

Nagalro Response to the Government Consultation on Special Guardianship

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Oxford Evaluation. Use and Value of ISW expertise to senior Judges Stage 11. Executive Summary

NEITHER FEAR NOR FAVOUR, AFFECTION OR ILL WILL:  MODERNISATION OF CARE PROCEEDINGS AND THE USE AND VALUE OF INDEPENDENT SOCIAL WORK EXPERTISE TO SENIOR JUDGES STAGE II ± Dr Julia Brophy Judith Sidaway, Dr Jagbir Jhutti-Johal, Charlie Owen and ... Read more

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

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Oxford Evaluation. The contribution of experts in care proceedings

EVALUATION OF INDEPENDENT SOCIAL WORK REPORTS IN CARE PROCEEDINGS Dr Julia Brophy Charlie Owen, Judith Sidaway, Dr Jagbir Jhutti Johal Department of Social Policy and Intervention University of Oxford Download report here 19 April 2012 Read more

New research explodes myths about Independent Social Work Experts

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