The Derailed Family Law Reform

This is a modest 2017 re-presentation of the EI reform derailed by Whitehall in 2004.

Ever since then, Whitehall has continued its search - for the exact reform that it destroyed - at the same time that Whitehall refuses to consider it.

There is nothing controversial about this EI proposal. It is ready to go, quick and cheap to do. It entails no more than the minor re-ordering of existing resources. It resolves an increasingly urgent problem - the burgeoning caseload - that threatens to overwhelm the Family Law system. It has heavy-weight professional support. Other jurisdictions went this way years ago.

Whitehall still will not look at EI. Whitehall cannot accept the fact that Cafcass has no guidance, either for parents or staff, on the best-interest length of contact.

For Whitehall, Cafcass is not the problem. It is the solution. So the problem continues and enlarges.

Click here to read this summary.