2016 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 relating to wishes and feelings reports and interviews with children and parents
- Procedures behind recommendations within section 7 reports and interviews with children
- Policy and practice guidance for Family Assistance Orders
- Advice given to practitioners in private law cases
- Guidelines for FCA recommendations
- Training available to Cafcass practitioners relating to coercive control
- How Cafcass works with children to ascertain their wishes and feelings
- The role of a child's guardian in rule 16.4 cases
- The role of a children's guardian in listening to the child's voice
- What Cafcass practitioners refer to when preparing section 7 reports
- What Cafcass practitioners use as a frame of reference for writing section 7 reports
- Policies and practice guidance relating to communicating rights to children and adults in proceedings
- Procedures and practice guidance for relinquished babies
- Cafcass framework and policies to make decisions that prevent a parent from seeing their child
- Impact of safeguarding checks on FCA recommendations for contact
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Collection, retention and disclosure of service users' personal information
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Other policy and training requests
- Third party recording of interviews
- Ending communication by phone
- Library resources relating to parental alienation
- Information relating to limited or ended communication
- Health and Safety Policy and the completion of accident and incident forms
- Information about how subject access requests are handled at Cafcass
- Information relating to identification of emotional or physical abuse
- Cafcass training on domestic abuse
Other
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Resources
- Telephony, broadband and WAN contract information
- Wifi contract information
- Financial services contract information
- Finance software contract information
- Ending of referrals to Bold Moves Programme in 2015
- Contract information for telecommunications at Cafcass
- DNA testing and care application trends
- ICT expenditure
- Cafcass resources in British Sign Language
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Staff related
- Staff performance monitoring and quality assurance of reports
- Information relating to staff in the Birmingham office: gender of practitioners, complaints against practitioners, average sickness leave, and accountability of staff
- Staff qualifications and training
- Recruitment and contracts for agency social workers
- DBS checks for Cafcass staff
- Number of social workers working on an agency basis in Cafcass
- The total number of staff employed by Cafcass
- Qualifications and experience of Cafcass officers preparing s.7 reports
- Are FCAs trained in psychology?
- Cafcass spend on agency FCAs
- HCPC Register and identity of FCAs
- Comparable earnings of male and female employees of Cafcass
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Statistics
- Ethnicity data for children subject to care proceedings
- Statistics showing the legal outcome of care and supervision applications made in 2015
- Final legal outcomes for public law section 31 applications
- How Cafcass makes recommendations regarding contact with each parent
- Parental order statistics for 2015-16 and country of origin for surrogates
- 2014-15 figures for parental orders granted from international surrogacy arrangements
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Complaints
- Complaints information relating to West Yorkshire/A5
- Complaints information relating to the South East and management structure
- Number of complaints received against Cafcass
- Disciplinary/remedial measures following complaints
- Complaints against Portsmouth office and correlation with errors made in s7 reports
- Gender of applicant/respondent in private law cases by month
- Complaints, disciplinary and resignation/sacking incidents 2013-16 private and public law practitioners
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Miscellaneous
- Role of Cafcass solicitors
- Number and type of data breaches within Cafcass
- Information about how decisions relating to contact are made
- Questions and methodology for service user survey 2015
- Questions relating to Cafcass survey "What happened next? A study of interim outcomes following private law proceedings as reported by parents six to nine months on"