Appendix 2 - RECORD OF EXTERNAL VISIT AND MEETINGS, QTR 1 2015-16
Chief Executive
Date
Visit/meeting
Purpose/outcome
2nd April 2015
Relate Call Centre visit, Doncaster
To assess options for linked
Anthony
call centres
Douglas
17th April 2015
Deborah Glassbrook, Reading County Council
To discuss a potential future
blueprint for services which
oversee front line social work
21 April 2015
Essex County Council
Visit to look at their
ethnographic approach to
understanding service user
experiences and aspirations
21 April 2015
Association of District Judges
Discussion of working
together on the national
private law model in future
27 April 2015
Leicester & Leicestershire Family Justice Board
Attendance as sponsor from
the National Family Justice
Board
28 April 2015
Birmingham Local Family Justice Board meeting
Attendance as sponsor from
the National Family Justice
Board
30 April 2015
Andrew Webb, Stockport CC
Discussion about joint working
between Cafcass and the
ADCS Policy Committee in
future
30 April 2015
Justine Roberts, Mumsnet
Establishing a basis for
working together on issues of
common concern
12 May 2015
HHJ Robertshaw
Discussion of potential pre-
proceedings projects in Devon
with national significance
12 May 2015
President’s Conference
Networking with senior judges
12 May 2015
Birmingham IRO Service
Meeting the staff group we
are managing pro-tem to
inform my thinking about the
future of this arrangement and
other similar arrangements
14 May 2015
Sarah Brennan, CEO, Young Minds
Discussion of future
partnership working and
issues of common concern
14 May 2015
Duncan Selbie
Discussion of a strategic
partnership between PHE and
Cafcass – positive outcome
14 May 2015
Slovak Embassy
Meeting with Accession bloc
ambassadors and officials
about their concerns the UK
practises non-consensual
adoption
15 May 2015
Peter Wanless, CEO, NSPCC
Discussion of areas for
working together
19 May 2015
Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division
Working on our next joint
agreement about priority
operational issues
20 May 2015
Peter Wanless, Sherry Malik and Lisa Harker, NSPCC
Follow up meeting to the
meeting on 15 May to go into
issues in more depth
20 May 2015
Steven Cox, Fujitsu
Regular catch-up with the
Head of Fujitsu in the UK and
Europe
26 May 2015
Helen Willets, Australian Senior Family Consultant
Helping an Australian senior
family court practitioner from
Canberra who wants to
introduce our tools for practice
into Australia
8 June 2015
London Adoption Board meeting
Cafcass newly invited to
attend. Went to first meeting
with the Head of Service who
will go from now on.
11 June 2015
Visit to Skylakes
Visited to view their
operational model as they are
now providing a managed
Appendix 2 - RECORD OF EXTERNAL VISIT AND MEETINGS, QTR 1 2015-16
service across functions to 37
local authorities.
15 June 2015
Hong Kong Study Tour
Met with delegation who
wanted to explore our
approach to private law cases
to inform their own reform
programme.
18 June 2015
London Adoption Board Conference – The Changing Landscape in Adoption
Speaking slot
and Permanence
18 June 2015
GOSH Clinical Ethics Conference
Speaking slot