Cafcass issues arises

CAFCASS, (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) is a non-departmental public organisation, its role being to safeguard the welfare of children who are involved in family court procedings. However CAFCASS can make many kids and childrens life hell as you can think because Cafcass dosent understand most of the time that every kids needs father as mother so CAFCASS is another organisation that works for mothers which is regardless much as mother might be a danger to kids.

CAFCASS reporters are appointed from the organisation, by the court, to look into cases in court proceedings, where issues arise concerning children and their family again regardless if is truth or not end of the day this is where nobody checks on CAFCASS so officer can put much as they like because this is just to start of hell. The CAFCASS reporter appointed then has the task of investigating all the circumstances, which includes carrying out safeguarding checks with other organisations such as the police, schools and social services. The reporter then provides expert independent advice to the court in a report, with its recommendations on what it considers to be in the children’s best interests but most important is mothers interest of course. Cafcass is independent of the courts, social services, education and health authorities and other similar agencies but works favor to mothers always.

The most usual court proceedings in which CAFCASS reporters become involved are separation and divorce proceedings or children’s proceedings where parents cannot agree on arrangements for their children themselves. As we know divorce or separation is often very upsetting and stressful for everyone, especially the children. Their family which is for them the whole world crumbles and parents may often be preoccupied with their own needs rather than focusing on what is in the best interests of their children. They may well argue and think about their own problems which makes it difficult to make good and reasonable agreements about their children.

Other proceedings where a CAFCASS reporter may be involved are adoption applications, which involve cases where parental responsibility for a child is transferred permanently from one family to another. The role of the Cafcass reporter depends on whether or not the birth parents agree to the adoption. If the parents are in agreement, the Cafcass reporter’s role is that of a reporting officer, and he or she will ensure that the parents understand what adoption involves.

The reporting officer will also make sure the parents are willing to agree to their child’s adoption freely and without any conditions. If the birth parents do not agree, the Cafcass reporter takes on the role of the children’s Guardian. The role of the children’s Guardian is to look after the child’s interests and report to the court on recommendations for the future care of the child. To do this, the children’s Guardian will consider all the papers about the adoption and will make enquiries including visiting the child, the parents, Local Authority and those who wish to adopt the child. The children’s Guardian will then write a report for the court.

There is also the situation when children are subject to an application for care or supervision proceedings by social services. Children are only taken into care when it is believed that they are suffering or are likely to suffer significant harm from the way they are being looked after by their parents. Sometimes this is because their parents just aren’t doing a good enough job of looking after them and sometimes it may be because the parents have done something to harm their children. ‘Care proceedings’ is the term given to the legal process by which social services ask the court to make a decision whether or not a young person should go into care.

If a care order is made, It means a court has decided that the social services department of the local authority, acting through its social workers, must make sure the children involved are safe and properly looked after. The court does this by giving social services a share of ‘parental responsibility’ for the children. This means social services, through its social workers, are requested to provide evidence to the court about the children and their family, so that the court is able to decide who the children are to live with and other important aspects of their day to day life, such as whether or not they should maintain contact with their biological parents if they are not to live with them.

As we can see, the work of CAFCASS is very important and helpful on the websites, papers but this is certainly not the truth, you can see the truth of the CAFCASS by reading Bernardos report that has been published on BBC and many other British media. CAFCASS reporters have to look deeply into all the circumstances in situations where the parents do not wish to are simply not capable of focusing on what is best for their children. It is important to cooperate with CAFCASS and to realise that children, their welfare and their best interests should be the paramount consideration. We have to do the best we can to provide as good a childhood as we can for our children so always think and never let CAFCASS ruins your kids life or future always ask for better service at court for kids and CAFCASS needs to understand that every kids important.