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Children and Adoption Bill [HL]

Would I be right in assuming that when this is implemented, CAFCASS would be the organisation expected to supervise contact orders, not the local authority? If so, and picking up the points of the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, there is an issue about the timing of the implementation. There is a serious problem about the availability of individual and group contact. The noble Earl has visited one or two of the centres that exist, but they are few. I presume that, were this implemented, there would be a period in which to commission services so that they can be developed. I presume that they would be linked, to some extent, to the family assistance orders and the whole attempt to hold the family together at this tertiary stage. It is a preventive time; it is a time when things are difficult but a real impact can be made. Where CAFCASS has been working intensively with families under Section 9(1), it has found that those families did not need to come back to court because of the measure of work that could be put into the contact work. Am I right in making that assumption?