Cafcass 2010-11 Annual Report Published
Cafcass' 2010-11 Annual Report and Accounts has been
published.
Key points from this year's annual report:
- We worked with 146,999 children.
- We received 11,986 new public law cases; 9,147 of these were
care cases (a 3.3% increase on 2009-10’s unprecedented
figures).
- Every month in 2010-11, bar June and December we received the
highest ever number of care applications for that individual month.
March 2011 was the higher figure ever recorded with 887
applications.
- By end of March 2011 we had three unallocated care cases
compared to 474 in March 2010 and our reliance on duty allocations
had fallen by 77% from 991 in March 2010 to 223 at the end of the
year.
- By March 2011, the average period between receipt of the case
by Cafcass and first full allocation to a Children’s Guardian was
four working days.
- Private law applications fell by 1.6% from 44,471 in 2009-10 to
43,759 this year.
- The timeliness of filing section 7 reports to the court
improved – with 98.9% filed on time with courts in March 2011.
- Parents’ attendance at Parenting Information Programmes
increased to 13,178 compared to fewer than 1,000 last year.
- Sickness absence fell during the year to 12.8 days on average
for practitioners (from 16.5 days in the previous year) and 11.4
days for all staff.
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