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Who pays Cafcass - Nation of Secrecy

F Mason (Account suspended) made this Freedom of Information request to Prime Minister’s Office

Prime Minister’s Office did not have the information requested.

From: F Mason (Account suspended)

4 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB7ABAZ0QT0

Please watch the above and answer all the outstanding questions
contained within, this is required under the FOI Act.

Yours faithfully,

F Mason

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From: F Mason (Account suspended)

5 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

It is probably wise to supply a transcribed version as a preventive
measure for the Public.

Between April 2008 and March 2009, CAFCASS had 6,465 cases on its
books.
That’s nearly 18 new cases a day or one new case every thirty
minutes of the working day.

Source: CAFCASS

Over the last four fiscal years, CAFCASS has dealt with 26,104
separate cases.
At a conservatively estimated cost of proceedings in Family Court
of £400,000 per case, that means CAFCASS has been instrumental in
spending £10.4 billion of public funds, minimum, over four years.

Source: CAFCASS

That’s £2.6 billion a year, not counting rollover cases. Or to put
it another way;
Between 21 municipal areas which CAFCASS is divided into, £124.3
million per area per year.

Source:CAFCASS

Where does this money come from?
Who pays CAFCASS?

Funding is received in part from Central Government.
This does not answer the burning question; Where does the rest of
the money come from?

We’re talking about litigation funding from Central Government
straight to CAFCASS that is equal to fully one tenth of the
Interest accrued on the Central Government (i.e. National) Debt
through 2008/09.

Where does this money come from?

We haven’t even started talking about;

Salaries for CAFCASS, Social Services or their ancillary staff yet.

Who controls the money?
Who do CAFCASS answer to?
Who accounts for the actions of CAFCASS?
Who legislates for CAFCASS?
Who represents CAFCASS in Parliament?
Who do you complain to when CAFCASS goes bad?
To who do we turn to put right that which CAFCASS gets wrong so
often?

Local Government? Central Government? Corporate Interests? Civil
Liberties groups? Or each other?

Kind regards,

F Mason

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Prime Minister’s Office

7 October 2009

Freedom of Information request Who pays Cafcass Nation of Secrecy.txt
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Dear Mr Mason,

Thank you for your emails to the Cabinet Office and the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons office regarding the above subject.

Please note under the Freedom of Information Act a 'valid' request must be in writing (email, letter, or fax), and should describe the information that is sought. Your earlier request(attached) asking us to watch a youtube clip and answer the questions are, therefore, not valid requests.

With regard to the request below, I suggest you approach the department most likely to hold the information you are seeking and in this instance it is the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service( CAFCASS). I attach the contact details for them below;

http://www.cafcass.gov.uk/system_page/fr...

I suggest you get in touch with them as your queries appear to be quite specific to CAFCASS.

I propose to take no further action on these requests unless I hear otherwise.

Kind regards,

Y Edwards
FOI Team
Cabinet Office
Tel: 020 7276 2473

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From: F Mason (Account suspended)

9 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam Y Edwards,

Please refer to the written confirmation you seek, which was
supplied on 5th October 2009 and respond with any information you
may hold.

Kind regards,

F Mason

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Prime Minister’s Office

14 October 2009

Re Freedom of Information request Who pays Cafcass Nation of Secrecy.txt
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Dear Mr Mason,

Thank you for your email below with regard to your request dated 5
October 2009 about the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support
Service (CAFCASS).

The FOI Act provides the requestor with an access right to recorded
information. A 'valid' request under the FOI Act is one that seeks to
see recorded information held by the public authority, such as
information on a specific issue, or process, not one that asks for
opinions or seeks answers or calculations.

As said in my earlier email, I suggest you get in touch direct with
CAFCASS as they are best placed to answer your query. CAFCASS is a
Non-Departmental Public Body of the Department for Children, Schools and
Families, and have delegated responsibility for its day-to-day
functions.

You will need to make your request direct to CAFCASS as they are a
separate public body under the Freedom of Information Act.

I hope this is helpful.

Kind regards,

Yasmine Edwards

FOI Team
Cabinet Office
Tel: 020 7276 2473

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