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CAFCASS

Answer

The Department for Education does not hold this information but I have asked the chief executive of CAFCASS to reply. A copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses. Letter from Anthony Douglas, Chief Executive, CAFCASS, to Lord Wills, dated 7 March 2012. I am writing to you in order to provide answers to the Parliamentary Question that you tabled recently: HL15980 Lord Wills: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service have allocated to self-employed practitioners in each quarter since the first quarter of 2007. Please see the table below which indicates the number of cases allocated to self-employed contractors for each quarter between 2007 to 2011.

	Number of cases allocated to self employed contractors
Q1 2007	976
Q2 2007	893
Q3 2007	977
Q4 2007	843
Q1 2008	892
Q2 2008	690
Q3 2008	755
Q4 2008	741
Q1 2009	922
Q2 2009	747
Q3 2009	696
Q4 2009	656
Q1 2010	711
Q2 2010	693
Q3 2010	654
Q4 2010	625
Q1 2011	596
Q2 2011	484
Q3 2011	484
Q4 2011	582

"Please note:""1. Figures in the above table are provided from the CAFCASS national case management system (CMS) The unit of measurement is a case, upon its receipt by CAFCASS from the Court and its entry into CMS. A case can have multiple ""applications and an application can involve multiple children. CMS is a live system and any late entries will be accounted for at the time of release of subsequent updates to this data.""2. If a case was allocated more than once in a different quarter, it will be counted each time in that quarter." "1. Figures in the above table are provided from the CAFCASS national case management system (CMS) The unit of measurement is a case, upon its receipt by CAFCASS from the Court and its entry into CMS. A case can have multiple ""applications and an application can involve multiple children. CMS is a live system and any late entries will be accounted for at the time of release of subsequent updates to this data.""2. If a case was allocated more than once in a different quarter, it will be counted each time in that quarter." "2. If a case was allocated more than once in a different quarter, it will be counted each time in that quarter."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

15980; 736 c1-2WA

Session

2010-12

Related items

CAFCASS
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Written questions
House of Lords

Notes

Question originally printed on 7 March 2012 at 735 c420WA but without the letter from CAFCASS.

Subjects

Contracts CAFCASS Family proceedings Self-employed

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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