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Children and Adoption Bill [HL]

It has been argued that the monitoring of these orders would be carried out by the CAFCASS officers. They would be able to do that because they would be writing shorter and more appropriate reports, so there would be no need for any additional resource. I know some practitioners who are concerned because CAFCASS officers’ reports are very important. Perhaps they could be shortened in some cases, but these are often extremely delicate cases and the right sort of information is important. I should like an assurance that careful thought has been given to this rebalancing. The Minister referred to a report yesterday. I am not sure whether he meant the report that I have here, which looked at CAFCASS and found some problems in some areas. I have not yet had a chance to discover the criticisms in this report, but do they help us to understand how well the reports are being written at the moment, or whether they can be shortened? That would interest me.