Procedures, Processes and Risks

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:Serena, Principal

Dear Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service,

Please kindly provide answers to the following:

1. What is the purpose of CAFCASS?
2. What rules and procedures do you follow before acting on allegations?
3. What are your fact finding procedures to corroborate the allegations as being true or false?
4. How do you decide whether a child is at risk of harm?
5. What procedures do you follow to ensure that the child is not harmed by the decisions CAFCASS make?
6. How do you assess whether the child is suffering from harm, is not suffering from harm, is at risk of suffering harm?
7. How do you assess what the impact will be upon permanently removing a child away from their mother?
8. Does the potential risk of harm to a child outweigh the inevitable harm and trauma that will no doubt be caused to a child by removing them from a secure, loving and happy environment?
9. Do you assess the child in the home environment they are being removed from?
10. On what grounds are decisions based on before removing a child from their mother?
11. Do you take the opinion of Local Authority Social Services into account? Yes or No?
12. If you do not take the opinion of Local Authority Social Services into account, please explain why?
13. Is the Family Court Advisor/Child Guardian Case Analysis report designed to be based on factual information supported by material evidence or based on probability/opinion?

Thanking you in advance.

Yours faithfully,

SP, Principal

Governance, Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service

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Dear Serena Principal,  

Thank you for your email.

Please accept this as a formal acknowledgement of your request to Cafcass
on 12^th October 2022.

Your reference number is CAF22-27341

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 8^th November 2022.  

Kind regards,

Governance Team | Cafcass

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Dear Serena Principal,  

Please see attached correspondence with regards to your recent request.

Kind regards,

Governance Team | Cafcass

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