Penny Booth: Private Law Programme Practice Direction: We need more staff, not more paperwork

Penny Booth

Principled intentions are to be welcomed - could it be any other way? However welcome as this direction is for the resolution of parental disputes that so badly affect children at a time when all parties (participants and victims alike) need all the help they can get is anybody providing the service of resolution of disputes with more workers? We really need more Indians not more chiefs or more paperwork per se.

Time and employees seems to be the thing here - more paperwork to prove it is quicker will only work if there are more professionals working within the system. It seems so obvious and yet the obvious is what gets missed too often. Who would be a social worker of any description these days? Whilst Cafcass officers are not to be thought of as social workers per se this line of work is one which seems to be getting more heaped upon it as every years goes by. What it would be useful to know is what level of support to the support workers...

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