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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.
Click here for the full report.