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All the news items published on Family Law Week this year are listed below. You can browse our news archive using the folders on the left.

• Kinship care undermined by failure of support in family justice system, finds APPG report
  News (23/05/2022)
  
• Latest statistics show continuing decline in marriage rates
  News (23/05/2022)
  
• ‘Soaring demand to protect vulnerable children drives cost of care up by a quarter’: LGA
  News (23/05/2022)
  
• Parliament debates reform of the Child Maintenance Service
  News (23/05/2022)
  
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (Commencement No. 4) Regulations 2022
  News (23/05/2022)
  
• Civil and Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order 2022
  News (23/05/2022)
  
• Government plans to modernise Lasting Powers of Attorney
  News (23/05/2022)
  
• Bridget Lindley Memorial lecture available online
  News (23/05/2022)
  
• Queen’s speech sets out legislative agenda for the year ahead
  News (17/05/2022)
  
• New research briefing into Liberty Protection Safeguards published
  News (17/05/2022)
  
• Information for solicitors on joining ICACU referral list
  News (17/05/2022)
  
• Government chooses Rape Crisis England and Wales to operate new helpline
  News (17/05/2022)
  
• Victims of rape able to avoid cross-examination in court
  News (17/05/2022)
  
• Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act
  News (09/05/2022)
  
• Fact-finding hearings and domestic abuse in Private Law children proceedings – Guidance for Judges and Magistrates
  News (09/05/2022)
  
• Thousands risk pension poverty after divorce: Aviva
  News (09/05/2022)
  
• Faster information for victims of domestic abuse proposed by Home Office
  News (09/05/2022)
  
• More than 30,000 domestic abuse victims denied legal aid as result of LASPO
  News (09/05/2022)
  
• Responses to call for evidence on dispute resolution published
  News (09/05/2022)
  
• Child Support (Amendments Relating to Electronic Communications and Information) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2022
  News (09/05/2022)
  
• Court judgments now available on National Archives website
  News (25/04/2022)
  
• 87% of adults reporting increasing in cost of living according to ONS statistics
  News (25/04/2022)
  
• Analysis of Online Safety Bill ahead of second reading
  News (25/04/2022)
  
• NSPCC referred almost 62 children a day to agencies last year
  News (25/04/2022)
  
• Ofsted research published into matching of children to children’s home places
  News (25/04/2022)
  
• Practising certificate renewal deadline extended
  News (25/04/2022)
  
• Domestic abuse: CPS revises guidance to ‘challenge damaging myths and stereotypes’
  News (11/04/2022)
  
• Domestic abuse: separate and single-sex service providers
  News (11/04/2022)
  
• Supporting male victims of crimes considered violence against women and girls
  News (11/04/2022)
  
• Ombudsmen release joint guidance to tackle common mistakes in aftercare of mental health in-patients
  News (11/04/2022)
  
• MIAMS decreased by 17 per cent in the last quarter
  News (11/04/2022)
  
• Same-sex marriage in the UK’s Overseas Territories
  News (11/04/2022)
  
• Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill reaches third reading
  News (11/04/2022)
  
• No-fault divorce comes into force
  News (11/04/2022)
  
• Research report published considering improvements to supervision orders and care orders at home
  News (04/04/2022)
  
• Statistics published regarding outcomes for children in need 2020 to 2021
  News (04/04/2022)
  
• Family Court statistics from October – December 2021 published
  News (04/04/2022)
  
• Government launches Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan
  News (04/04/2022)
  
• Government consultation open for changes to SEND system
  News (04/04/2022)
  
• Top 10 children’s care providers made £300m profits, says Observer
  News (28/03/2022)
  
• Staffordshire council to think again about care leaver’s complaint
  News (28/03/2022)
  
• Ongoing legacy of historic adoption practices revealed in evidence published by Parliamentary Committee
  News (28/03/2022)
  
• Ending physical punishment in Wales
  News (28/03/2022)
  
• Committee on Experts in the Family Justice System newsletter published
  News (28/03/2022)
  
• Child Maintenance Service guide published
  News (28/03/2022)
  
• Amendments to standard orders: Message from Mr Justice Mostyn
  News (21/03/2022)
  
• Legal Aid means test review launched
  News (21/03/2022)
  
• Liaison between the courts and British Embassies and High Commissions: Guidance from the President of the Family Division
  News (21/03/2022)
  
• Children deprived of their family environment due to the armed conflict in Ukraine: Hague Convention information note
  News (21/03/2022)
  
• Forthcoming changes to Child Maintenance Service announced
  News (21/03/2022)
  
• Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 (Commencement) Regulations 2022
  News (21/03/2022)
  
• Cyberflashing’ to become a criminal offence
  News (21/03/2022)
  
• Outdoor civil weddings and civil partnerships made permanent
  News (21/03/2022)
  
• CMA raises concerns as to dysfunctional market for children’s social care placements
  News (14/03/2022)
  
• Women’s Aid responds to Human Rights Act reform consultation
  News (14/03/2022)
  
• LGBT+ Adoption and Fostering Week 2022
  News (14/03/2022)
  
• Cafcass trials new child arrangements pilot scheme
  News (14/03/2022)
  
• Mr Justice Peel appointed as National Lead Judge of Financial Remedies Court
  News (14/03/2022)
  
• Nightingale Courts extended to support recovery in justice system
  News (07/03/2022)
  
• One month to go before introduction of no-fault divorce
  News (07/03/2022)
  
• National Audit Office reveals significant arrears in Child Maintenance System
  News (07/03/2022)
  
• Further £160m to be invested into government’s National Adoption Strategy
  News (07/03/2022)
  
• Bradford Children’s Services to be placed into Trust
  News (07/03/2022)
  
• Amendments to terminology in standard orders in divorce proceedings
  News (07/03/2022)
  
• Law Commission welcomes new steps to gather financial data on divorce
  News (28/02/2022)
  
• Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill receives third reading
  News (28/02/2022)
  
• Draft guidelines published to help improve practice when the state acts to safeguard a baby at birth
  News (28/02/2022)
  
• Mental capacity and protection of human rights in care examined
  News (28/02/2022)
  
• ‘No stone left unturned’ to transform rape case handling, says Director of Public Prosecutions
  News (28/02/2022)
  
• Nuffield Family Justice Observatory publishes strategy for 2022-26
  News (28/02/2022)
  
• Family Justice Council: applications invited from Family Silks and Magistrates
  News (28/02/2022)
  
• President’s guidance on e-bundles for public law children proceedings
  News (21/02/2022)
  
• New Standard Orders templates released
  News (21/02/2022)
  
• 1 in 10 children in care has an unresolved immigration or nationality issue
  News (21/02/2022)
  
• 64% of social workers have reported concerns about families being able to provide food for children
  News (21/02/2022)
  
• Research Briefing published regarding the calculations for Child Maintenance
  News (21/02/2022)
  
• Domestic abuse victims and housing
  News (15/02/2022)
  
• Number of applications to deprive children of their liberty in unregulated placements rises by 462% in three years
  News (14/02/2022)
  
• High Court hears children in care discrimination claim
  News (14/02/2022)
  
• 5,500 children in care who could be with their families: CFAB
  News (14/02/2022)
  
• Financial Remedies Court: Form D81
  News (14/02/2022)
  
• Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2022
  News (14/02/2022)
  
• Human Rights Act reform: Parliamentary committee inquiries continue
  News (14/02/2022)
  
• Announcement for the Family Transparency Implementation Group
  News (14/02/2022)
  
• Supreme Court: Judicial Assistant recruitment campaign for September 2022
  News (14/02/2022)
  
• Department for Education proposes registration requirement for children not in school
  News (07/02/2022)
  
• Updated ABE interview guidance published
  News (07/02/2022)
  
• Publication of humanist marriage ceremony briefing paper
  News (07/02/2022)
  
• Statistics show number of divorces in 2021 fell 4.5% compared to the previous year.
  News (07/02/2022)
  
• Cross border DOLS placements in Scotland are ‘not in any way’ an ideal situation for children says SASW
  News (07/02/2022)
  
• New figures indicate an average of 669 child protection referrals were made by the police a day in 2020/2021
  News (07/02/2022)
  
• Parliamentary Committee investigates proposals to reform the Human Rights Act
  News (31/01/2022)
  
• The Child Maintenance Service must improve, says Gingerbread
  News (31/01/2022)
  
• Parliamentary inquiry to examine access to legal support for kinship carers
  News (31/01/2022)
  
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2022
  News (31/01/2022)
  
• Record numbers of women enter their 30s child-free
  News (31/01/2022)
  
• 10,000 people have received one-to-one legal support as result of Litigants in Person Grant
  News (31/01/2022)
  
• Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (2005 Hague Convention and 2007 Hague Convention) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
  News (31/01/2022)
  
• Judicial Review and Courts Bill: Progress of the Bill
  News (31/01/2022)
  
• Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel: terms of reference
  News (31/01/2022)
  
• Ofsted report indicates a third of care leavers feel they left care too early
  News (24/01/2022)
  
• Family mediation scheme boosted with an addition £1.3 million
  News (24/01/2022)
  
• Amendment of the Family Proceedings Fees Order 2008
  News (24/01/2022)
  
• Ministry of Justice proposes amendments to Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill with aim of keeping women safer
  News (24/01/2022)
  
• Prosecutions for Child Sexual Abuse have more than halved in 4 years
  News (24/01/2022)
  
• House of Commons Library briefing released regarding the High Income Child Benefit Charge
  News (24/01/2022)
  
• Notice from the Financial Remedies Court
  News (17/01/2022)
  
• Divorcing couples continue to ignore pensions, Which? finds
  News (17/01/2022)
  
• Family Mediation Week 17 to 21 January
  News (17/01/2022)
  
• Lead Judge for Private Family Law appointed
  News (17/01/2022)
  
• Commons Justice Committee examines transparency in family court system
  News (17/01/2022)
  
• Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill completes committee stage
  News (17/01/2022)
  
• Researchers appointed for report into domestic abuse victims with no access to public funds
  News (17/01/2022)
  
• Review of the Standard Family Orders (SFOs) announced
  News (17/01/2022)
  
• Six-year anniversary of criminalisation of coercive control
  News (10/01/2022)
  
• National review into safeguarding agencies aware of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes
  News (10/01/2022)
  
• Home Office decides not to adopt a data firewall for migrant victims of domestic abuse
  News (10/01/2022)
  
• Guidance given on e-bundles in the Family Court and Family Division
  News (10/01/2022)
  
• Record amount of child maintenance payments collected
  News (10/01/2022)
  
• Commission on Young Lives report published
  News (10/01/2022)
  
• Update to litigation friend referral form for Children Act public law cases
  News (10/01/2022)
  
• Updated form for appointing a litigation friend where protected party lacks capacity
  News (10/01/2022)
  
• New government support package to help more disabled people into work
  News (10/01/2022)
  
• Outdoor weddings and civil partnerships consultation launched
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• Average duration of care proceedings to first disposal up to 45 weeks
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• Legal aid expenditure for family matters rose 5 per cent in July to September 2021
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• MIAMs decreased by 11 per cent in July to September 2021
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• Placement orders in breach of Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005: CoramBAAF note
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• Consultation launched on reforms to Human Rights Act
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• Human Rights Committee examines historic treatment of unmarried mothers in adoption inquiry
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• Migrant victims of domestic abuse failed by government, says Domestic Abuse Commissioner
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• Local Government Association welcomes announcement on supported accommodation for young people
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• Sarah Morgan QC appointed to the High Court
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• Financial Remedy Court Organogram
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• Committee on Experts in the Family Justice System newsletter published
  News (20/12/2021)
  
• Courts will continue as they have done over the course of the pandemic
  News (13/12/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Commissioner pledges to end the ‘postcode lottery’ of domestic abuse services
  News (13/12/2021)
  
• State of the Nation’s Foster Care Report 2021 published
  News (13/12/2021)
  
• Law Commission proposes reforms to protect disabled and LGBT+ victims, and criminalise extremist misogynist ‘incel’ hate material
  News (13/12/2021)
  
• Responding to the rapid rise in demand for free legal advice
  News (13/12/2021)
  
• Human Rights Committee recommends amendments to Judicial Review and Courts Bill
  News (13/12/2021)
  
• Membership of the Family Transparency Implementation Group (TIG) announced
  News (13/12/2021)
  
• Improving the Family Court response to domestic abuse: Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s proposals
  News (06/12/2021)
  
• Fostering services face crisis in morale and funding: Observer report
  News (06/12/2021)
  
• Electronic court bundles
  News (06/12/2021)
  
• Family Procedure Rules – contempt forms
  News (06/12/2021)
  
• Domestic abuse and sexual offences to be treated as seriously as knife crime
  News (06/12/2021)
  
• Tougher penalties for child cruelty
  News (06/12/2021)
  
• Advocates’ meetings
  News (06/12/2021)
  
• Upskirting prosecutions more than doubled over the second year since legislation introduced
  News (06/12/2021)
  
• Supreme Court decides on capacity to have sexual relations
  News (29/11/2021)
  
• CPS charging rates for domestic abuse fell for the third year, ONS statistics show
  News (29/11/2021)
  
• Standard Orders: Amendment to non-molestation order
  News (29/11/2021)
  
• Domestic abusers to be moved from the family home
  News (29/11/2021)
  
• Ombudsman issues guidance to help domestic abuse survivors
  News (29/11/2021)
  
• FGM statistics published
  News (29/11/2021)
  
• ‘Rampant, hidden violence’ against Sikh women revealed by report
  News (29/11/2021)
  
• Coram Children’s Legal Centre celebrates its 40th anniversary
  News (29/11/2021)
  
• Number of looked after children at all-time high
  News (22/11/2021)
  
• Better adult outcomes for children cared for by relatives – new research
  News (22/11/2021)
  
• Supreme Court to give judgment in case involving capacity to consent to sexual relations
  News (22/11/2021)
  
• Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill given second reading
  News (22/11/2021)
  
• Mental Capacity Act: consultation launched on Small Payments Scheme
  News (22/11/2021)
  
• Cuts led to vulnerable children ‘crisis’: House of Lords Public Services Committee
  News (22/11/2021)
  
• Reforms to child age assessments in Nationalities and Borders Bill investigated
  News (22/11/2021)
  
• Expressions of Interest sought for membership of the Family Transparency Implementation Group
  News (22/11/2021)
  
• President of the Family Division: Drafting orders
  News (15/11/2021)
  
• President of the Family Division: Witness statements
  News (15/11/2021)
  
• Charities respond to Supreme Court ruling on children’s privacy and data rights
  News (15/11/2021)
  
• Ofsted: Lack of foster carers mean children missing out on support
  News (15/11/2021)
  
• Looked after children: out of area, unregulated and unregistered accommodation in England
  News (15/11/2021)
  
• Education Committee examines adequacy of children’s homes for children with special educational needs
  News (15/11/2021)
  
• Justice Committee examines the future of court reporting in changing media landscape
  News (15/11/2021)
  
• Judge criticises ‘nihilistic’ family law litigation
  News (08/11/2021)
  
• More specialist support for LGBT+ victims of domestic abuse needed: Domestic Abuse Commissioner
  News (08/11/2021)
  
• £12 million Transformation Fund launched to support family hubs
  News (08/11/2021)
  
• Government publishes report showing progress under Istanbul Convention
  News (08/11/2021)
  
• Developing and Maintaining Relationships for Care-Experienced People report published
  News (08/11/2021)
  
• Legal aid: launch of high cost family fixer service
  News (08/11/2021)
  
• ‘Honour-based’ offences rose by 81 per cent in last five years
  News (01/11/2021)
  
• Number of children in need at lowest figure since 2013
  News (01/11/2021)
  
• CSA collection and write-off strategy nears completion
  News (01/11/2021)
  
• Transparency in the Family Courts Report published
  News (01/11/2021)
  
• Financial Remedy Proceedings Consultation launched
  News (01/11/2021)
  
• Commissioner ‘deeply concerned’ by latest CPS statistics on domestic abuse
  News (24/10/2021)
  
• Child abduction: accredited solicitors referral list
  News (24/10/2021)
  
• First winners of prestigious Resolution Awards revealed
  News (24/10/2021)
  
• Providers given legal aid financial eligibility tool to trial
  News (24/10/2021)
  
• President of the Family Division addresses priorities for the rest of his term
  News (24/10/2021)
  
• Farquhar Committee reports on the Financial Remedies Courts
  News (24/10/2021)
  
• CMA outlines concerns on availability and price of children’s care
  News (24/10/2021)
  
• Domestic abuse cases being dropped at increasing rate: BBC News
  News (18/10/2021)
  
• Report Abuse in Education helpline will run until the end of the year
  News (14/10/2021)
  
• President of the Family Division’s memorandum: Experts in the Family Court
  News (14/10/2021)
  
• Children’s Commissioner’s proposals to help children by helping families
  News (14/10/2021)
  
• New public law cases received by Cafcass fell by 14.5 per cent in September
  News (14/10/2021)
  
• New private law cases received by Cafcass in September fell by 13 per cent
  News (14/10/2021)
  
• Play about legal implications of baby shaking to be broadcast via Teams
  News (10/10/2021)
  
• Bertarelli settlement shows the value of ‘a good prenuptial agreement’
  News (08/10/2021)
  
• Financial support for kinship carers
  News (08/10/2021)
  
• Divorcée receives £60k state pension windfall after DWP mistake
  News (08/10/2021)
  
• Financial Remedy Court Organogram (October 2021)
  News (08/10/2021)
  
• Do you believe mediation should be voluntary?
  News (08/10/2021)
  
• Civil and Family Court fees from 30 September 2021
  News (03/10/2021)
  
• 783,000 children are currently covered by Child Maintenance Service arrangements
  News (03/10/2021)
  
• Resolution Awards shortlist announced
  News (03/10/2021)
  
• New family case starts rose 14 per cent during April to June 2021
  News (03/10/2021)
  
• MIAMs increased by 43 per cent in April to June 2021
  News (03/10/2021)
  
• Legal aid expenditure for family matters rose 12 per cent in April to June 2021
  News (03/10/2021)
  
• Welsh Government launches campaign explaining ban on physical punishment of children
  News (26/09/2021)
  
• Woman with Down’s Syndrome loses challenge to UK’s abortion law
  News (26/09/2021)
  
• ‘Victims of domestic abuse are discriminated against in the family courts’
  News (26/09/2021)
  
• The right to family life: adoption of children of unmarried women 1949-1976
  News (26/09/2021)
  
• New research highlights the importance of pension sharing on divorce for women’s finances
  News (19/09/2021)
  
• New public law cases received by Cafcass fell by almost 14 per cent in August
  News (17/09/2021)
  
• New private law cases received by Cafcass in August fell by 8 per cent
  News (17/09/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2021
  News (17/09/2021)
  
• New Family Division Liaison Judge appointed for the North Eastern Circuit
  News (17/09/2021)
  
• Court reporting in the digital age: Justice Committee inquiry
  News (17/09/2021)
  
• Review published into safeguarding babies from non-accidental injury caused by male carers
  News (17/09/2021)
  
• New cross-system approach needed to prevent violence against women and girls
  News (17/09/2021)
  
• Divorce applications move online
  News (12/09/2021)
  
• Family Proceedings Fees Order amended
  News (12/09/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Support (Local Authority Strategies and Annual Reports) Regulations 2021
  News (12/09/2021)
  
• Increases to emergency cost limit for legal aid work
  News (12/09/2021)
  
• Cafcass launches the ‘Together with Children and Families’ framework
  News (12/09/2021)
  
• Family Rights Group secures funding to improve early and pre-proceedings work with families
  News (12/09/2021)
  
• Government committed to reform of the Mental Health Act
  News (05/09/2021)
  
• Judicial review applications down 16 per cent in first half of this year
  News (05/09/2021)
  
• Voucher scheme for family mediation extended by government
  News (05/09/2021)
  
• Change to family legal advice via the Civil Legal Advice helpline
  News (05/09/2021)
  
• Call for evidence on dispute resolution extended to 31 October 2021
  News (05/09/2021)
  
• ‘Bride price’ judgment due
  News (21/08/2021)
  
• Judge makes appeal for return of Knox Jefferies
  News (21/08/2021)
  
• £20 million to provide more early help for vulnerable families
  News (21/08/2021)
  
• Care leavers and council tax – Welsh Government consults
  News (21/08/2021)
  
• Marriage rates for opposite-sex couples in 2018 the lowest on record
  News (15/08/2021)
  
• Police awarded £11.3m for programmes to prevent domestic abuse and stalking crimes
  News (15/08/2021)
  
• Eleven Practice Directions updated
  News (15/08/2021)
  
• New public law cases received by Cafcass fell by 14 per cent in July
  News (13/08/2021)
  
• New private law cases received by Cafcass in July fell by over 16 per cent
  News (13/08/2021)
  
• Dispute Resolution in England and Wales: Call for Evidence
  News (06/08/2021)
  
• Emotionally charged: costs on divorce and dissolution
  News (06/08/2021)
  
• President of the Family Division’s transparency review update
  News (06/08/2021)
  
• European Convention on Human Rights protocol no. 15 comes into force
  News (06/08/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Act: statutory guidance consultation launched
  News (06/08/2021)
  
• Organisations call on Education Secretary to protect the rights of unaccompanied children in Kent
  News (06/08/2021)
  
• Supreme Court upholds the use of the inherent jurisdiction to authorise the deprivation of liberty of 15-year old
  News (30/07/2021)
  
• Number of old CSA cases dealt with by Child Maintenance Service below 50,000
  News (30/07/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021: six more factsheets published
  News (29/07/2021)
  
• Legal aid needs urgent reform to secure fairness of the justice system: Commons Justice Committee
  News (29/07/2021)
  
• Government publishes strategy ‘to deliver excellence’ in adoption services across England
  News (29/07/2021)
  
• Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
  News (25/07/2021)
  
• Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021
  News (25/07/2021)
  
• Supreme Court to give judgment in case concerning inherent jurisdiction to authorise child's placement in unregistered secure accommodation
  News (25/07/2021)
  
• Robert Edwards reappointed to Family Procedure Rule Committee
  News (25/07/2021)
  
• Lasting Powers of Attorney: consultation launched
  News (25/07/2021)
  
• Law Commission recommends reforms to protect victims of online abuse
  News (25/07/2021)
  
• Government launches strategy for tackling violence against women and girls
  News (25/07/2021)
  
• Bar Council responds to introduction of Judicial Review and Courts Bill
  News (25/07/2021)
  
• New report reveals a quarter wished for mediation or arbitration as answer to divorce
  News (25/07/2021)
  
• Professionals say remote hearings in the family court still need improvements to ensure fairness
  News (25/07/2021)
  
• Settlement reached in Akhmedov divorce case
  News (18/07/2021)
  
• Cohabiting couples to benefit from changes to bereavement benefit rules
  News (17/07/2021)
  
• Cafcass Prioritisation Protocol now in use in Midlands areas
  News (17/07/2021)
  
• Digital divorce service to replace paper D8 form from September 2021
  News (17/07/2021)
  
• A View from The President’s Chambers: July 2021
  News (17/07/2021)
  
• Guidance on Allocation and Gatekeeping for Care, Supervision and other Proceedings under Part IV of the Children Act 1989 (Public Law) 2014
  News (17/07/2021)
  
• Children’s homes inquiry: Commons Education Committee
  News (17/07/2021)
  
• Lord Chancellor questioned on Human Rights Act reforms
  News (17/07/2021)
  
• Message from Mr Justice Mostyn: Standard orders
  News (09/07/2021)
  
• Marriage venues
  News (09/07/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (Commencement No. 1 and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2021
  News (09/07/2021)
  
• Appointment of the Official Solicitor in property and affairs proceedings: practice note
  News (09/07/2021)
  
• Appointment of the Official Solicitor in welfare proceedings: practice note
  News (09/07/2021)
  
• City of Wolverhampton Council to improve its adoption recruitment process
  News (09/07/2021)
  
• 8th Family Law & Children’s Rights Conference to take place from 12 to 16 July
  News (04/07/2021)
  
• Domestic abuse: Support for victims and survivors
  News (04/07/2021)
  
• Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Approved Premises) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
  News (04/07/2021)
  
• Regional and local support for LiPs underway in England and Wales
  News (04/07/2021)
  
• Pandemic leads to 44 per cent decrease in cases handled by Forced Marriage Unit in 2020
  News (04/07/2021)
  
• Gingerbread calls on the Government to scrap unfair child maintenance fees
  News (04/07/2021)
  
• Bill to raise minimum age of marriage to 18 taken over by Pauline Latham
  News (04/07/2021)
  
• Court of Appeal hears appeal concerning puberty-blocking drugs
  News (27/06/2021)
  
• New public law cases received by Cafcass fell by 4 per cent in May
  News (27/06/2021)
  
• New private law cases received by Cafcass in May rose by 6 per cent
  News (27/06/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (Processing of Victims’ Data for Immigration Purposes) (Extension of Relevant Period) Regulations 2021
  News (27/06/2021)
  
• Child Support (Collection and Enforcement and Maintenance Calculation) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
  News (27/06/2021)
  
• Family court activity increases across most case types during January to March 2021
  News (25/06/2021)
  
• Legal aid expended on private family law increases by 21 per cent
  News (25/06/2021)
  
• Family mediation starts increased by 33 per cent in January to March 2021
  News (25/06/2021)
  
• Ombudsman finds London council failed to keep child safe
  News (25/06/2021)
  
• CCLC warns of shortfall in children securing status through EU Settlement Scheme
  News (25/06/2021)
  
• Kinship Care (Parental Leave) Bill introduced
  News (25/06/2021)
  
• The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care publishes early thinking
  News (20/06/2021)
  
• Directory of legal aid processes restarting after Covid-19 contingency published by LAA
  News (20/06/2021)
  Information on business as usual restart dates and changes to current operational Covid-19 contingency ways of working
• Court judgments to get new home
  News (20/06/2021)
  
• Outdoor civil wedding and partnership registrations to be legalised
  News (20/06/2021)
  
• Getting paid – top tips on family legal aid billing
  News (18/06/2021)
  
• Cafcass publishes new Domestic Abuse Learning and Improvement Plan
  News (18/06/2021)
  
• Child maintenance: consultation launched on modernising and improving the service
  News (18/06/2021)
  
• Domestic abuse support within safe accommodation: statutory guidance and regulations consultation
  News (18/06/2021)
  
• Marriage by under-18s to be outlawed, pledges government
  News (14/06/2021)
  
• Five members appointed to Family Procedure Rule Committee and one member reappointed
  News (11/06/2021)
  
• Family foster carers could be due backdated payments following Ombudsman investigation
  News (11/06/2021)
  
• Select Committee opens inquiry into VAWG with evidence from Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Refuge and Centre for Women’s Justice
  News (11/06/2021)
  
• ‘Culture change needed to tackle “normalised” sexual harassment in schools and colleges’
  News (11/06/2021)
  Ofsted publishes review
• Launch of rapid consultation on remote, hybrid and in-person hearings in the family justice system
  News (11/06/2021)
  
• Narcissism in personal relationships
  News (06/06/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Toolkit for Employers updated
  News (06/06/2021)
  
• Eight in 10 councils forced to overspend on children’s social care budgets
  News (06/06/2021)
  
• Care leavers could receive extra housing support
  News (04/06/2021)
  
• Report Abuse in Education helpline receives hundreds of calls since April launch
  News (04/06/2021)
  
• Number of children accommodated in secure homes decreases by 23 per cent
  News (04/06/2021)
  
• Homelessness and young people
  News (22/05/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021: factsheets
  News (22/05/2021)
  
• Fees in the Family and Civil Courts – main fees
  News (21/05/2021)
  
• Judges must consider interests of child when sentencing mother, urges Committee
  News (21/05/2021)
  
• Dramatic rise in child poverty in North East England in the last five years shows the scale of the ‘levelling up’ challenge
  News (21/05/2021)
  
• New public law cases received by Cafcass fell slightly in April
  News (21/05/2021)
  
• New private law cases received by Cafcass in April rose by more than 40 per cent
  News (21/05/2021)
  
• Court of Appeal permits Russian wife to bring billion dollar High Court case
  News (16/05/2021)
  
• One in four contemplate leaving family law following lockdown: Resolution survey
  News (16/05/2021)
  
• Current provision of Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programmes
  News (16/05/2021)
  
• Mr Justice Cohen retires
  News (16/05/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Act 2021 commencement schedule
  News (16/05/2021)
  
• Government responds to inquiry into child sexual abuse in secure children’s homes
  News (09/05/2021)
  
• Experts and the Family Justice System: Widening the Pool
  News (09/05/2021)
  
• New suite of Judicial Review Practice Directions issued
  News (09/05/2021)
  
• New pilot Practice Direction 36W: communicating forced marriage and FGM protection orders to the police
  News (09/05/2021)
  
• Family Court (Composition and Distribution of Business) (Amendment) Rules 2021
  News (09/05/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Bill becomes law
  News (09/05/2021)
  
• Tatiana Akhmedova granted judgments in £453 million divorce case
  News (25/04/2021)
  
• Kent teen left to live in tent during Covid crisis
  News (25/04/2021)
  
• Legal aid: notice of extension to the 2018 Standard Civil Contract
  News (25/04/2021)
  
• Mrs Justice Lieven appointed Family Division Liaison Judge for the Midland Circuit
  News (25/04/2021)
  
• Home Affairs Committee launches inquiries into rape and violence against women and girls
  News (25/04/2021)
  
• Biggest ever consultation with children in England launched by the Children’s Commissioner
  News (25/04/2021)
  
• Protocol for London and South East on domestic abuse applications being made outside the applicant’s area
  News (25/04/2021)
  
• Amendments to standard public law orders: message from Mr Justice Mostyn
  News (25/04/2021)
  
• New private law cases received by Cafcass in March rose by more than a third
  News (18/04/2021)
  
• New public law cases received by Cafcass rose by more than 13 per cent in March
  Judgments (18/04/2021)
  
• Survey supports recommendations for a review of supervision orders in care proceedings
  News (18/04/2021)
  
• LAPG launches 2021 Legal Aid Census ‘to show true state of social justice sector’
  News (18/04/2021)
  
• BASW England releases new Domestic Abuse Guidance for social workers
  News (18/04/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Bill: Progress of the Bill
  News (11/04/2021)
  
• Funding available for councils to support more families to resolve parental conflict
  News (11/04/2021)
  
• Civil Partnership (Registration and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
  News (11/04/2021)
  
• Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021
  News (11/04/2021)
  
• Marriage and Civil Partnership (Conversion of Civil Partnership and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
  News (11/04/2021)
  
• Court of Appeal issues guidance on domestic abuse hearings and findings of fact
  News (11/04/2021)
  
• New Victims’ Code provides for victims of sexual violence or domestic abuse
  News (11/04/2021)
  
• 56 per cent of separated families in Great Britain have a child maintenance arrangement
  News (29/03/2021)
  
• Mediation has increased since last year and now exceeds pre-COVID-19 levels
  News (29/03/2021)
  
• Care cases now taking 41 weeks to first disposal
  News (29/03/2021)
  
• New pilot Practice Direction 36V reflects the existence of the Family Mediation Voucher Scheme
  News (26/03/2021)
  
• £1 million voucher scheme to help families resolve disputes outside of court
  News (26/03/2021)
  
• Committee takes evidence on Government’s Independent Review of the Human Rights Act
  News (26/03/2021)
  
• BASW England raise further concerns over the conduct of the Review of Children’s Social Care
  News (26/03/2021)
  
• Cafcass publishes organisational guidance on working with children through Covid-19
  News (26/03/2021)
  
• Recovery message from the President of the Family Division
  News (26/03/2021)
  
• Judicial Review consultation launched
  Judgments (21/03/2021)
  
• Supreme Court allows mother’s appeal in 1980 Hague Convention / asylum case
  News (21/03/2021)
  
• New film to mark the launch of an agenda for change in Special Guardianship
  News (21/03/2021)
  
• Ombudsman issues guide for dealing with children’s statutory complaints
  News (21/03/2021)
  
• Home Affairs Committee announces inquiry into Violence Against Women and Girls
  News (21/03/2021)
  
• Children in care homes: Education Committee launches call for written evidence
  News (21/03/2021)
  
• Children’s Commissioner launches ‘Beveridge Report for children’
  News (21/03/2021)
  
• Almost all young women in the UK have been sexually harassed, YouGov poll finds
  News (21/03/2021)
  
• New public law cases received by Cafcass fell by 2 per cent in February
  News (14/03/2021)
  
• New private law cases received by Cafcass in February rose slightly on 2020
  News (14/03/2021)
  
• Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2021
  News (14/03/2021)
  
• CMA launches study of children’s social care provision
  News (14/03/2021)
  
• Violence Against Women and Girls Call for Evidence reopened
  News (14/03/2021)
  
• Supreme Court to hand down judgment in 1980 Hague Convention / asylum case
  News (12/03/2021)
  
• Intercountry adoption: exception requests
  News (12/03/2021)
  
• Human Rights Commissions questioned on enforcement of human rights across the UK
  News (12/03/2021)
  
• Review of the controlling or coercive behaviour offence published
  News (07/03/2021)
  
• No case for reform of the Human Rights Act, says Joint Committee on Human Rights
  News (07/03/2021)
  
• Dame Rachel de Souza begins her term as Children’s Commissioner for England
  News (07/03/2021)
  
• BASW UK responds to Government Independent Review of the Human Rights Act
  News (07/03/2021)
  
• President’s Public Law Working Group report published
  News (07/03/2021)
  
• New laws to protect victims added to Domestic Abuse Bill
  News (01/03/2021)
  
• Disabled people more likely to suffer domestic abuse than non-disabled
  News (28/02/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Bill to proceed to Lords report stage on 8 March
  News (28/02/2021)
  
• Reforms to laws around intimate image abuse proposed to better protect victims
  News (26/02/2021)
  Law Commission consults on proposals
• Message from the President of the Family Division: The Financial Remedies Courts
  Judgments (26/02/2021)
  
• ADCS report highlights safeguarding pressures before and during pandemic
  News (26/02/2021)
  
• Domestic abuse in Wales and Covid-19
  News (21/02/2021)
  
• Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021
  News (19/02/2021)
  
• Children in care homes: Education Committee to launch new inquiry
  News (19/02/2021)
  
• Unregulated accommodation banned for vulnerable children under 16
  News (19/02/2021)
  
• Launch of supervision order survey by National Family Justice Observatory
  News (19/02/2021)
  
• Civil legal aid bills consultation launched
  News (14/02/2021)
  
• Councils must give parents clear information during safeguarding investigations
  News (14/02/2021)
  
• Legal Services Board data demonstrate fluctuating demand for family law services during pandemic
  News (14/02/2021)
  
• 'Single parents more likely to experience problem debt and live in persistent poverty'
  News (14/02/2021)
  New report from Gingerbread
• Family Division’s Transparency Review: Update
  News (14/02/2021)
  
• Changes to the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020
  News (14/02/2021)
  DfE launches consultation
• Note all Financial Remedies Practitioners
  News (08/02/2021)
  
• Privy Council hears appeal concerning same-sex marriage
  News (07/02/2021)
  
• Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021
  Judgments (07/02/2021)
  
• Home Affairs Committee investigates domestic abuse during Covid-19 pandemic
  News (05/02/2021)
  New data show steep rise in cases
• ‘Duty on local authorities to fund community-based services should be included in the Domestic Abuse Bill’
  News (05/02/2021)
  Joint call from Commissioners to the Government
• New help for divorcing couples as they are urged to consider sharing their pensions
  News (31/01/2021)
  
• 'Private equity involvement in care placements needs reviewing'
  News (31/01/2021)
  Local Government Association expresses concern about profit and debt levels
• Number of open CSA cases decreased to 71,700 in September 2020
  News (29/01/2021)
  
• Calls to NSPCC about children living in violent homes rise by over 50 per cent
  News (29/01/2021)
  
• Councils urged to learn from Ombudsman investigation into child abuse complaint
  News (29/01/2021)
  
• Civil legal aid application forms changed to reflect new eligibility criteria
  News (29/01/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Bill enters committee stage
  News (29/01/2021)
  
• Financial Remedy Court organogram
  News (29/01/2021)
  
• Damage to children’s mental health caused by Covid crisis demands major increase for children’s mental health services
  News (29/01/2021)
  Children's Commissioner publishes fourth annual report on the state of children’s mental health services in England
• New public law cases received by Cafcass rose by nearly 5 per cent in December
  News (24/01/2021)
  
• New private law cases received by Cafcass in December rose 9 per cent on 2019
  News (24/01/2021)
  
• Special Restrictions on Adoptions from Abroad (Nigeria) Order 2021
  News (22/01/2021)
  
• Firms should check whether they need to register as doing tax advice work
  News (22/01/2021)
  
• Government publishes new strategy to protect children from sexual abuse
  News (22/01/2021)
  
• Independent Human Rights Act Review: Parliamentary Committee calls for evidence
  News (22/01/2021)
  
• Politicians must come up with ‘a big, bold plan’ to fix child poverty: Children’s Commissioner
  News (22/01/2021)
  
• Independent Human Rights Act Review issues call for evidence
  Judgments (17/01/2021)
  
• New rules for legal practice: guidance for legal professionals
  News (17/01/2021)
  
• Workplace support for victims of domestic abuse: review report
  News (17/01/2021)
  
• Domestic abuse victim not supported properly by Wandsworth council when she became homeless
  News (15/01/2021)
  
• Human Rights Committee to hear from those whose right to a family life has been undermined by long lockdown
  News (15/01/2021)
  
• Education Secretary launches review of children’s social care
  News (15/01/2021)
  
• Continuing application of the Choice of Court Convention and Child Support Convention for the United Kingdom
  News (10/01/2021)
  
• Lady Black retires from the Supreme Court
  News (10/01/2021)
  
• Amendments to Family Procedure Rules
  News (10/01/2021)
  
• Amendments to civil legal aid eligibility criteria
  News (10/01/2021)
  
• Cafcass publishes updated organisational guidance on working with children through Covid-19
  News (10/01/2021)
  
• Domestic Abuse Bill receives second reading in Lords
  News (10/01/2021)
  
• Message from the President of the Family Division: The Road Ahead 2021
  News (10/01/2021)