Comments on: CAFCASS encourage shared parenting http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2009/07/cafcass-encourage-shared-parenting.html Putting equal parenting on the agenda Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:20:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Families Need Fathers ‘Shared Parenting’ Guidelines Controversy – The Research Evidence | Living Frugal http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2009/07/cafcass-encourage-shared-parenting.html/comment-page-1#comment-55 Families Need Fathers ‘Shared Parenting’ Guidelines Controversy – The Research Evidence | Living Frugal Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:15:47 +0000 http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/?p=286#comment-55 [...] Equal Parenting Alliance » Blog Archive » CAFCASS encourage shared parenting [...] [...] Equal Parenting Alliance » Blog Archive » CAFCASS encourage shared parenting [...]

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]]> By: paulbaddeley http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2009/07/cafcass-encourage-shared-parenting.html/comment-page-1#comment-47 paulbaddeley Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:19:50 +0000 http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/?p=286#comment-47 CAFCASS DO NOT ENCOURAGE SHARED PARENTING IN STOKE-ON-TRENT. THEY ADD NO VALUE WHATSOEVER. They take what mum wants and that's it. They even ignored the chilsren's plead to see dad more. No reasons for this other than they did not want to upset mum!!!! They refused to use there own contact guidelines and did not consider shared residence as requested by the court. There should be a presumption of shared parenting. This is better for everyone and will allow the country to say with conviction that it promotes equal opportunties for all including children. CAFCASS cannot change and should be disbanded and the money saved used to free mediation should be put in place straight away or seperated parents who need it. Former labour voter. CAFCASS DO NOT ENCOURAGE SHARED PARENTING IN STOKE-ON-TRENT. THEY ADD NO VALUE WHATSOEVER. They take what mum wants and that’s it. They even ignored the chilsren’s plead to see dad more. No reasons for this other than they did not want to upset mum!!!! They refused to use there own contact guidelines and did not consider shared residence as requested by the court.

There should be a presumption of shared parenting. This is better for everyone and will allow the country to say with conviction that it promotes equal opportunties for all including children. CAFCASS cannot change and should be disbanded and the money saved used to free mediation should be put in place straight away or seperated parents who need it.

Former labour voter.

]]> By: Rosefather http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2009/07/cafcass-encourage-shared-parenting.html/comment-page-1#comment-30 Rosefather Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:32:47 +0000 http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/?p=286#comment-30 Has anyone seen this agreed version? It's now past the end of Oct, let alone Sept. If there is not public ownership of these or similar guidelines, I feel this needs to be followed up. If anyone knows any more, about CAFCASS updating their policy or about any follow up, please post a link in these comments. Has anyone seen this agreed version? It’s now past the end of Oct, let alone Sept. If there is not public ownership of these or similar guidelines, I feel this needs to be followed up. If anyone knows any more, about CAFCASS updating their policy or about any follow up, please post a link in these comments.

]]> By: tarrelen http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2009/07/cafcass-encourage-shared-parenting.html/comment-page-1#comment-25 tarrelen Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:00:49 +0000 http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/?p=286#comment-25 Thank you both very much for the information. Families need fathers have posted an update about this on their website: http://www.fnf.org.uk/publications-and-policy/shared-parenting-shared-benefits "The news is that Cafcass have agreed to take ownership of the guidelines, with FNF support, and create a revised draft that will then be circulated to Cafcass staff. They hope to have an agreed version by the end of September" I am holding my breath! Thank you both very much for the information.

Families need fathers have posted an update about this on their website:
http://www.fnf.org.uk/publications-and-policy/shared-parenting-shared-benefits

“The news is that Cafcass have agreed to take ownership of the guidelines, with FNF support, and create a revised draft that will then be circulated to Cafcass staff.
They hope to have an agreed version by the end of September”

I am holding my breath!

]]> By: ray http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2009/07/cafcass-encourage-shared-parenting.html/comment-page-1#comment-24 ray Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:59:44 +0000 http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/?p=286#comment-24 FnF did indeed say it was a work in progress, and that it had been posted prematurely in error. Whatever FnF thought of it, however, is less important than what CAFCASS thought. CAFCASS were clearly content with the guidance; they posted it on their own web-site as official guidance to their own practitioners, and then removed it when 2 academics complained about it. This is a perfect example of the back-door way that policies are made which affect all of our children,- not by politicians or any other accountable people but secretly by unaccountable, unelected individuals such as Liz Trinder and Joan Hunt. Parliament intended that the 1989 Children Act should lead to shared parenting being the norm. We now have the very opposite of that. How has this happened? How has the will of Parliament, our elected representatives, been set aside? By small steps over the years like this one, a phone call here, a letter there, a word in the right ear; that's all it took to remove a quarter of the nation's children from the love of one or other parent, that and the the fact that no-one cares until it happens to their own children. Ray FnF did indeed say it was a work in progress, and that it had been posted prematurely in error. Whatever FnF thought of it, however, is less important than what CAFCASS thought. CAFCASS were clearly content with the guidance; they posted it on their own web-site as official guidance to their own practitioners, and then removed it when 2 academics complained about it.

This is a perfect example of the back-door way that policies are made which affect all of our children,- not by politicians or any other accountable people but secretly by unaccountable, unelected individuals such as Liz Trinder and Joan Hunt.

Parliament intended that the 1989 Children Act should lead to shared parenting being the norm. We now have the very opposite of that. How has this happened? How has the will of Parliament, our elected representatives, been set aside? By small steps over the years like this one, a phone call here, a letter there, a word in the right ear; that’s all it took to remove a quarter of the nation’s children from the love of one or other parent, that and the the fact that no-one cares until it happens to their own children.

Ray

]]> By: admin http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2009/07/cafcass-encourage-shared-parenting.html/comment-page-1#comment-23 admin Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:32:05 +0000 http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/?p=286#comment-23 Apparently this has been withdrawn since our original article was posted. It seems it was a draft document posted in error. Two academics, Liz Trinder and Joan Hunt, wrote to DCSF, CAFCASS, and FNF raising "grave concerns" about the guidance, and this would seem to be behind the withdrawal of it from the CAFCASS web-site. FNF continues to support the guidance, but unless it receives support from other quarters, the guidance may well now die a death. For more information see http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2009/08/07/112283/fathers-group-tackles-misunderstanding-over-cafcass-guide.html Apparently this has been withdrawn since our original article was posted. It seems it was a draft document posted in error.

Two academics, Liz Trinder and Joan Hunt, wrote to DCSF, CAFCASS, and FNF raising “grave concerns” about the guidance, and this would seem to be behind the withdrawal of it from the CAFCASS web-site. FNF continues to support the guidance, but unless it receives support from other quarters, the guidance may well now die a death.

For more information see http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2009/08/07/112283/fathers-group-tackles-misunderstanding-over-cafcass-guide.html

]]> By: tarrelen http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/2009/07/cafcass-encourage-shared-parenting.html/comment-page-1#comment-22 tarrelen Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:17:22 +0000 http://www.equalparentingalliance.org/?p=286#comment-22 This is the best news I have had in a bad month! (my ex has suddenly become very adversarial on seeing my suggested parenting plan). Unfortunately the link in the article to the guidance from the CAFCASS website does not work. I have what seems to be the same or similar document from Families Need Fathers: http://www.fnf.org.uk/downloads/CAFCASS_GUIDANCE_APRIL_09_FNF_STYLE.pdf, but it would carry more weight 'from the horse's mouth' as it were.... This is the best news I have had in a bad month! (my ex has suddenly become very adversarial on seeing my suggested parenting plan). Unfortunately the link in the article to the guidance from the CAFCASS website does not work. I have what seems to be the same or similar document from Families Need Fathers: http://www.fnf.org.uk/downloads/CAFCASS_GUIDANCE_APRIL_09_FNF_STYLE.pdf,

but it would carry more weight ‘from the horse’s mouth’ as it were….

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