Attachment Training?

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Dear Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service,

Children and parents assessed in private and public law proceedings should have their attachments to their parents investigated as part of any legal process that sincerely reports to the court.

Forensic attachment assessments of the type now available and used by some specialists can identify abuse and neglect, and enable formulation and delivery of interventions.

The quality of attachment in childhood forms the quality of most human functioning and interaction. The best interests of children cannot reliably be ascertained and reported to the court without evidence gained from an attachment perspective. The curriculums of most social work, psychology and psychiatric under- and post-graduate, and Doctoral degrees do not contain specialist training in attachment.

Please provide:
1. CAFCASS's policy on assessing attachment
2. All literature relied on that was used to formulate the policy
3. How is the policy reviewed?
4. What CPD in attachment is offered to CAFCASS operatives and
5. How many have undertaken that training?

Yours faithfully,

Stuart Graham

Governance, Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service

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Dear Mr Graham,

 

Thank you for your email. Please accept this as a formal acknowledgement
of your Freedom of Information request which was received on 04 June 2019.
Your reference number is CAF 19-096.

 

We aim to respond to you promptly, and at the latest 20 working days from
receipt of your request. You will therefore receive a response on or
before 01 July 2019.

 

Kind regards,

 

Governance Team | Cafcass

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Dear Mr Graham,

 

Thank you for your email. Please find attached our response to your
Freedom of Information request.

 

Kind regards,

 

Governance Team | Cafcass

* [1][CAFCASS request email] | ü [2]www.cafcass.gov.uk 

[3]Cafcass_Logo_2014_email

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cafcass email addresses have changed to end in @cafcass.gov.uk. Please
ensure you update your address book. For more information on this change
please see our  [4]website

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