Dear Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service,

Please supply the following information under FOIA

1. All tools, guidance and assessment processes and information/guidelines CAFCASS make available to FCA’s specifically written by CAFCASS for grandparents October 2018 - Present

2. All information CAFCASS provide pertains specifically to FCA’s working with grandparents

3. Please provide all information available within CAFCASS to include guidelines for assessing grandparents mental health

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed]

Dear Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service's handling of my FOI request 'CAFCASS: Assessments/specific information re: grandparents'.

INDIRECT DISCRIMINATION: GRANDPARENTS

“THIS” says it ALL

I requested information on grandparents and CAFCASS send me an attachment in “HARMFUL CONFLICT” !!!

You have NO tools and FCA’s access a library like any person can ?

This is the last straw: your FCA’s are not qualified to assess mental health but they are and without due diligence.
CAFCASS are applying generic one size fits all policies and procedures to grand parents which is INDIRECT DISCRIMINATION and AGE DISCRIMINATION . CAFCASS are applying neutral policies and arrangements and applying them to ‘everyone’ whatever their age/health condition.

It is recognised that older grandparents have ‘unique mental health’ needs that require specialist skills ‘distinct’ from the general adult population therefore your GENERIC FRAMEWORK is putting grandparents at a disadvantage. Older people face ‘double whammy discrimination here because of age and disability.

Indirect discrimination is legally unjustifiable. This a sickening and horrifying what CAFCASS are applying. Grandparents health is distinctly different clinically from working age people. Grandparents with Alzheimer’s, Anorexia, Brain injury, delerium, Huntingtons disease ,Parkinson’s disease,stroke are dramatically different, contextually differerent from the mental health of separating/divorcing parents and you have NO TOOLS to assess.

This added to the process of LEEDS FCA undertaking FPR 22 in more ways than witness statement to include sitting listening and analysing recording without directions of the court of material,and Exhibits not shared with parties. This is the last straw.

Information on too many FOIA shows CAFCASS haven’t a clue what they’re doing, untrained unqualified.

This organisation can not based upon this indirect discrimination and all mentioned provide an accurate report to the a Judiciary; inaccurate data throughout ECMS and providing inaccurate ‘meaningless’ reports as , based on NO tools but Indirect discrimination.

This is disgraceful for this shameless national organisation. The framework applied to grandparents is a sham this FOIA says it ALL .

The onus is now on CAFCASS to justify this indirect discrimination.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed]