HST / Experts in Proceedings / Supervision

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Dear Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service,

1- Please provide all your policies/documents held by Cafcass on hair strand testing a party

2- Please provide all your policies/documents held by Cafcass in reference to the necessity and proportionality of appointing an expert to assist in proceedings (i.e. psychologist, independent parenting assessor, toxicologist etc).

3- Please provide your policies/documents issued to Service Managers relating to their responsibility to carry out supervision and any associated forms requiring them to fill out to evidence they have undertaken this and evidence safe practice.

4- Please provide temple standard terms of employment contract for employees with the job title "Senior Service Manager" and number of employees FTE for this post within Cafcass as of date of handling this request.

Yours faithfully,
Alison Melville

Governance, Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service

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Dear Alison Melville,

 

Thank you for your email.

 

Please accept this as a formal acknowledgement of your request to Cafcass
on 27^th March 2023.

 

Your reference number is CAF23- 29137.

 

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 25^th April 2023.

 

In the meantime, for any further information please do not hesitate to
contact us. You may also find more information on our website [1]here.

 

Kind regards,

Governance Team | Cafcass

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Governance, Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service

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Dear Alison Melville

 

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

 

Kind regards,

Governance Team | Cafcass

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Dear Governance,

I would like to report an admin mistake because no document is attached,

Yours sincerely,

Alison Melville

Governance, Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service

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Dear Alison Melville

 

Apologies the attachments provided with in the response letter we not
attached in the original response.

 

Kind regards,

Governance Team | Cafcass

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

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