Emma Busby
Cafcass National Office
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
3rd Floor
21 Bloomsbury Street
London
WC1B 3HF
Your ref: CAF 18-127
Our ref: Gov/CAF 18-127
Tel 0300 456 4000
22 November 2018
Dear Ms Busby
Re: Freedom of Information Request
Thank you for your email of 01 November 2018 You made the following requests for
information:
Would you mind sending me a copy of the training 'Evidencing Private Law
assessment tools' please?
Please find attached a copy of the 'Evidencing Private Law assessment tools
eLearning.
Would you also send me a copy of the presentation called 'Contemporary practice in
domestic abuse assessment elearning'?
Please find attached a copy of the 'Contemporary practice in domestic abuse
assessment’ presentation.
Would you please confirm how many of your staff completed the ‘Risk and Harm in
Cafcass’ and ‘Risk and Harm Domestic Abuse' modules in 2015 to 2018 by year
please?
Please see below for the number of completions for the ‘Risk and Harm in Cafcass’
eLearning module for 2015-2018.
Year
Completions Risk and
Harm in Cafcass
Edward Timpson CBE Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, is a non-departmental body of the Ministry of Justice
Cafcass National Office, 3rd Floor, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF
2015
105
2016
97
2017
101
2018
98
Year to
Date
Please see below for the number of completions for the ‘Risk and Harm Domestic
Abuse’ eLearning module for 2015-2018.
Year
Completions Risk and
Harm Domestic Abuse
2015
96
2016
101
2017
97
2018
81
Please would you also let me know the dates on which you ran the 'Child Protection
and Decision Making' 3 day courses in 2015 to 2018 by year please? and let me
know how many of your staff attended each on each date?
Cafcass no longer runs the 'Child Protection and Decision Making' training and does
not have attendance figures for this training.
would you also give me some extra details on your Attachment and Parenting
Capacity training. Is this a eLearning module or a course or is it a presentation? could
you send me a copy please of the course document or module?
Cafcass has a Knowledge Bite on Attachment Theory. Please find a copy of this
attached.
Would you confirm how many staff completed 'Developing Private Law Practice Skills'
training in years 2015 to 2018 by year please?
Cafcass no longer runs the 'Developing Private Law Practice Skills training and does
not have attendance figures for this training. The training was delivered in 2015 after
the introduction of the Child Arrangements Programme. Cafcass does however have
Edward Timpson CBE Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, is a non-departmental body of the Ministry of Justice
Cafcass National Office, 3rd Floor, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF
'Evidencing Private Law assessment tools’ eLearning and ‘an Introduction to Private
Law eLearning’.
Would you confirm the dates of your Legal Roadshows in 2015 to 2018 by year
please and give me a copy of the topic of each one? do you also have attendance
figures for these?
Please see below for a table outlining the dates of the Legal Roadshow for calendar
years 2015-2018 year to date and the attendance figures for each date.
2015
2016
2017
2018
Date
No.
of Date
No.
of Date
No.
of
No.
of
attendees
attendees
attendees
attendees
6th January
16
14th
13
12th
12
9th January
12
January
January
13th January
31
28th
16
24th
11
24th January
10
January
January
20th January
16
4th
8
7th
11
6th February
14
February
February
26th May
16
10th
12
23rd
7
24th May
9
February
February
2nd June
19
23rd
11
2nd March
8
19th June
17
February
24th June
20
10th March
12
23rd May
6
12th July
12
16th July
14
24th March
9
27th June
8
5th
14
September
2nd
19
23rd May
10
5th
9
18th
21
September
September
September
8th September 15
6th June
8
20th
8
27th
10
September
September
24th
12
1st July
16
27th
14
2nd October
17
September
September
8th October
13
27th July
10
11th
15
15th October
34
October
20th October
15
8th
8
19th
14
17th October
11
September
October
29th October
11
13th
16
2nd
8
25th October
17
Edward Timpson CBE Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, is a non-departmental body of the Ministry of Justice
Cafcass National Office, 3rd Floor, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF
September
November
10th
11
27th
18
7th
14
7th November 13
November
September
November
9th December
9
4th October 10
22nd
11
20th
-
November
November
-
-
25th
9
7th
12
28th
-
October
December
November
-
-
3rd
13
-
-
3rd December -
November
-
-
10th
8
-
-
-
-
November
-
-
8th
10
-
-
-
-
December
Please below for the topics for each Legal Roadshow for 2015-2018.
2015
• Modern Families
• Leave to remove
• “Old favourites, new thoughts” including Litigants in Person, Separate Legal
Representation, Disclosure and Vulnerable Witnesses.
2016
• Radicalisation
• Honour Based Violence – Forced Marriages and FGMs
• Leave to Remove
2017
• Scotland- what’s Jurisdiction got to do with it?
• Secure Accommodation
• Deprivation of Liberty
• Data Breaches – Consequences and how to avoid them
2018
• Transgender – moving beyond binary
• Re W and the role of Cafcass
• Deprivation of Liberty
Edward Timpson CBE Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, is a non-departmental body of the Ministry of Justice
Cafcass National Office, 3rd Floor, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF
Do you know how many of your staff accessed your knowledge bite on Emotional
Harm in the years 2015 to 2018 by year please?
Please see below for the number of users who have accessed the Emotional Harm
Knowledge Bite Knowledge Bite for 2015-2018 year to date.
Year
Number of users who accessed
Emotional Harm Knowledge Bite
2015
45
2016
20
2017
29
2018
39
The same for the one on Contact in Private Law Proceedings if you have it?
Please see below for the number of users who have accessed the Contact Private
Law Knowledge Bite for 2015-2018 year to date.
Year
Number of users who accessed
Contact Private Law Knowledge Bite
2015
36
2016
36
2017
28
2018
61
Could you send me copies of your last 3 or 4 ‘Learning and Development Bul etins’
please?
Please find attached a copy of the last four Learning and Development Bulletins.
Can you let me know what ‘knowledge alerts’ you sent out in 2017 and 2018 please
with the dates of each one and how many staff they were sent to? Would you also
send me a copy of the last 3 or 4 that you sent out please?
In 2018, Cafcass produced the
Working Together to Safeguard Children Knowledge
Alert.
Edward Timpson CBE Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, is a non-departmental body of the Ministry of Justice
Cafcass National Office, 3rd Floor, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF
This Knowledge Alert was made available to Cafcass staff on 27 July 2018 via the
Cafcass intranet. An intranet news article informing staff of the alert was published on
27 July 2018.
In 2017, Cafcass produced the
JTAI: Domestic abuse Knowledge Alert.
This Knowledge Alert was made available to Cafcass staff on 22 September 2018 via
the intranet. An intranet news article informing staff of the alert was published on 22
September 2018.
Please find attached the last four Knowledge Alerts.
Would you also provide a list and dates of the ‘development days’ for teams on
relevant topics that have taken place in 2015 to 2018 and the staff attendance figures
for each please?
Cafcass does not keep a central record of development days and attendance figures
at these days as these are arranged and held locally by local managers.
Is al of Cafcass eLearning developed by Cafcass’ National Improvement Service? or
do you have some that is developed by other people?
Cafcass eLearning is mostly developed by Cafcass’ National Improvement Service
(NIS).
Some eLearning has been developed by NIS in collaboration with other staff or
departments within Cafcass. For example, The Family Justice Young People’s Board
(FJYPB) Voice of the Child eLearning was developed by NIS with members of the
FJYPB.
Some eLearning has been developed by NIS in collaboration with external
organisations. For example, Cafcass has a Coercive and controlling behaviour
eLearning module which has been developed in collaboration with Research in
Practice and
Safe Lives.
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Edward Timpson CBE Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
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Cafcass National Office, 3rd Floor, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF
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Yours sincerely,
Governance Team
Cafcass
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Edward Timpson CBE Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, is a non-departmental body of the Ministry of Justice
Cafcass National Office, 3rd Floor, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF
Edward Timpson CBE Chair
Anthony Douglas CBE Chief Executive
Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, is a non-departmental body of the Ministry of Justice
Cafcass National Office, 3rd Floor, 21 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3HF