2015 disclosure log
Summaries and categories of requests have been added to aid searches for information, although these categories are necessarily broad and may not cover all of the issues covered within a request where several have been made together.
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Policy and training
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Policies and procedures for completing court reports
- Policy and procedure relating to risk assessments
- Child protection policies and recommendations for contact
- Policies relating to complaints and telephone interviews
- Decision making in relation to child arrangement orders
- Guidance for Cafcass practitioners writing court reports and conducting interviews
- Procedures for working with children and teenagers
- Procedures for case management on recurrent proceedings
- Procedures for completing section 7 reports and average case durations
- Procedures for completing interviews while preparing section 7 reports
- Procedure for completing safeguarding assessments
- Procedures and training for assessing domestic violence
- Policies relating to shared care arrangements and interviews with children
- Templates for safeguarding checks and court reports
- Procedure for writing Section 7 reports and timelines for interviewing family
- Toolkit for assessing the impact of domestic abuse
- Framework for what issues should be included in section 7 reports
- Information relating to assesment of safeguarding issues and contact recommendations
- Policy relating to interviews with children
- Procedures for report writing, interviews, and safeguarding
- Policy and procedure for S37 and S7 reports
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Collection, retention and disclosure of service users' personal information
- Records management procedure
- Retention periods for case file information
- Cafcass policies relating to data protection, confidentiality and disclosure
- Policy relating to record keeping of case related information
- Data protection procedures for self-employed contractors
- Level of information obtained through police checks
- Records management procedure
- Process for obtaining information from other agencies for service users and non-parties
- Policies relating to customer services, requesting information (FOI) and obtaining service user information
- Retention policy
- Policy relating to requesting diversity information of service users including religion
- Information relating to what information is collected about service users and its confidentiality
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Other policy and training requests
- Policy on diversity and reasonable adjustments
- Information about who is responsible for looking into cases of emotional abuse
- Information about the Cafcass tool 'impact of parental conflict'
- Training for Family Court Advisers on whose interests they represent
- Training and qualifications of Cafcass staff in relation to mental health
- Training on the issue of alienation of children from their parents
- Policy relating to equal opportunities
- Cafcass position on alienation of children from their parent(s)
- Cafcass practice for McKenzie Friends attending Cafcass meetings
- Cafcass' view on child slave labour
- Equal opportunities statement
- Process for referrals to Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes (DVPP)
- Role of a McKenzie friend during a Cafcass meeting
- Cafcass view on alienation of a child from a parent
- Provision of mediation services by other organisations
- Information relating to the appointment of guardians and solicitors by the court
- Practitioner recognition and training of issues relating to alienation of a child from a parent
- Information related to how Cafcass responds to allegations of harm
- Fraud and Whistleblowing Policies
- Guidance for Family Court Advisers on recommendations for individuals being joined as parties to proceedings
- Information relating to home education
- Information relating to the use of parental conflict tool
Other
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Resources
- Cafcass spend on IT training
- Information about the 'Bold Moves' programmes: Family Man, Mums Space
- Cafcass' funding and financial accounts
- Cafcass spend on IT recruitment
- Costs associated with the pilot programme Supporting Separating Parents in Dispute (SSPID)
- Contract information in relation to fixed telephony, broadband and WAN
- IT team structure and strategy
- Use of recruitment agencies
- Expenditure on PR and HR functions
- List of suppliers providing outsourced ICT Services
- IT service provider information
- Contract information relating to call centre services
- Gas and electricity suppliers
- Decisions behind the implementation of Egress Switch secure email
- Contract information relating to provision of agency staff
- IT training provision and software upgrades
- Information relating to contracts for IT helpdesk, desktop and network support
- Information relating to Microsoft Office training requirements
- Contract information for telecommunications
- Contract information for vehicle lease and fleet management
- Tenders received for health and wellbeing contract
- Contract information for mobile application software
- Contract information for building and cleaning contracts
- Information on the use of the Guardian's 'Partner Zone'
- Contract value for winning provider of DNA paternity testing tender
- Contract information for mobile phone network provider
- IT contract information
- Where details of tendered services are published
- When SPIP providers will be put to tender
- Contract information for local area network (LAN) services
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Staff related
- Number of social workers employed by Cafcass and other related statistics
- Performance standards for Family Court Advisers
- Qualifications required for Cafcass staff
- Cafcass disciplinary procedures
- Number of Cafcass social workers registered with the HCPC
- Number of dismissals of staff on ill health capability grounds
- Role of a Cafcass Service Manager
- Code of conduct for Family Court Advisers
- Policy which preceded the Employee Relations Policy
- Staff payments and performance monitoring
- Number of child psychologists employed by Cafcass
- Number of family court advisers and leavers in Birmingham service area
- Code of conduct for Cafcass officers
- Number of social workers working on a temporary (agency) basis at Cafcass
- Information relating to parental leave statistics and flexible working arrangements
- Code of ethics for Cafcass officers and standards for reporting to court
- Number and percentage of male Family Court Advisers in Cafcass
- Number of social worker and information on turnover and recruitment; spend and policy on interpreters
- Senior manager for IT and Business Planning
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Statistics
- Number of adults with learning disabilities in care cases
- Number of Secure Accommodation (Section 25) applications
- Number of private and public law cases received by Cafcass (Performance Report)
- Number of parental order applications received by Cafcass
- Number of cases involving Rule 16.4 appointments of a Guardian and views on legal aid changes under LASPO
- April number of parental order applications received by Cafcass
- Statistics relating to granted parental orders
- Number of parental order applications from applicants of the same gender
- List of the countries of surrogate mothers in parental order applications
- Number of parental order applications and information relating to international surrogacy arrangements and gender of applicants
- Surrogacy statistics (number of parental order applications)
- Number of historic care application statistics (2007 - 2011)
- Statistics on age of children involved in proceedings, records of interactions with judges, and average duration of cases
- Number of special guardianship orders and supervision orders
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Complaints
- Number of cases, complaints and compliments received by Cafcass
- Cafcass complaints procedure
- Complaints procedure for non-parties
- Complaint numbers and staff diversity information in the Midlands
- Mechanisms for service user feedback
- Complaints outcomes and learning processes
- Complaints made relating to Leicester team
- Complaints procedure; complaint stats; complainant diversity info; staff diversity info
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Miscellaneous
- List of solicitor firms instructed by Cafcass in Essex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Greater London
- Number and outcomes of civil private prosecutions against Cafcass
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- List of solicitor firms appointed by Cafcass in Dorset
- List of solicitor firms appointed by Cafcass in the Midlands and London
- List of solicitor firms appointed by Cafcass in Dorset May - June 2015
- Number of serious case reviews to which Cafcass has contributed
- Cafcass organogram and Board member details
- Policy on replying to emails and itinerary for Chief Executive
- Ofsted inspection results