The Family Justice Review Panel has launched a Call for Evidence.
The Panel wishes to hear from children, families, professionals and representative groups involved in the family justice system.
The Review will look at both public and private law cases. In public law this means looking at how the courts, with other agencies, manage cases involving children and the public care system. In private law this means looking at contact and residence disputes between family members and will include considering how to increase the use of mediation when couples break up, and how best to provide greater access rights to nonresident parents and grandparents.
Responses should be submitted to Ministry of Justice via an online questionnaire or by email to familyjusticereview@justice.gsi.gov.uk. by Thursday 30 September 2010.
Download the call for evidence.
Further information about the Family Justice Review on the Ministry of Justice website