Cafcass Accountability Review
30 August 2007
Anthony Douglas, Cafcass Chief Executive, has commissioned an
"Accountability Review". This will explore a wide range of issues
around accountability for Cafcass as an organisation and for
individual practitioners and managers, with the aim of identifying
best practice.
For Cafcass' operational workforce, there is a complex web of
accountabilities: professional, legal, ethical, organisational;
matched by an equally complex range of people to whom practitioners
feel varying degrees of accountability including the children we
work with; the children awaiting a service; the families of
children we work with; other professionals; the judiciary and the
court; Cafcass colleagues and managers. So, difficult questions can
arise for example:
Are there differences in accountability for practitioners who
are employed or self-employed, or when they are working with
private or public law cases? If so, what are these?