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Children’s Commissioner for England releases preliminary findings of The Family Review at Policy Exchange
On 1st September 2022 the Children's Commissioner launched the Independent Family Review at Policy Exchange. As part of the launch, the Commissioner revealed findings such as - • There are 8.2 million families with children in the UK • 63% of those families...
Child Maintenance Service Statistics published up to March 2022
Child Maintenance Service Statistics published up to March 2022 The Statistics for the usage of the Child Maintenance Service in the last quarter has been published by The Department for Work and Pensions. 18% of separated families used The Child Maintenance System to...
Domestic Abusers barred from cross-examining victims in family and civil courts
From July 21st victims of domestic abuse will no longer be cross – examined by their alleged attackers in family and civil courts under measures coming into force on that day. However, the ban will only apply to cases that there is specified evidence of domestic abuse...
Women’s Aid Publishes report regarding the implementation of Harm Panel Recommendations
In 2020 the ‘Harm Panel’ appointed by the Ministry of justice, published a report on the family justice system. The panel reported that the family court system was failing and in private law, proceedings were creating further harm and trauma to children. The...
Child Maintenance
In January 2022 the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Single Parent Families met to discuss how the Child Maintenance Service must be improved for the benefit of children of single-parent families across the country (‘What am I paying for?’: The need to improve...
Divorce
The Office for National Statistics (‘ONS’) releases yearly divorce statistics based on information from HM Courts and Tribunals Service. The most recent statistical report covers the year 2020. The overall total of divorces for 2020 was 103,592, a decrease of...
Legal Aid Denied to Thousands
Research by The Guardian has highlighted the drastic fall in the number of domestic abuse cases funded by legal aid, from 75% to 47% over the last ten years. Such a sharp decline is attributed to the introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing, and Punishment of...
Avoid Pension Poverty After Divorce
Spouses’ decision to divorce or dissolve their civil partnership, raises many complex questions about the division of assets. A largely overlooked asset is an individual’s pension which may have accrued over many years and can provide a vital lifeline in retirement....
Domestic Abuse: new strangulation and suffocation laws
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 On the 7th June 2022 new powers under sections 70 and 71 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 were introduced that enable abusers to be charged with specific non-fatal offences, namely, strangulation and suffocation. These offences are punishable...