The Corrupt Tactics Cafcass Utilise

Having had experience of Cafcass one would think that there would be confidence in such a supposed independent public organisation? You are very very wrong. Firstly the prof is in that OFSTED themselves have deemed them to be failing. Hardly surprising Cafcass are seeking to blame excessive case loads. The following are extracts taken from OFSTED damin report of Cafcass, York.

Inspectors evaluated private and public law reports, case files, complaints records,human resources files, duty systems and Cafcass work at court. They surveyed the views of Cafcass staff, adult service users, children and young people. Because the service area did not provide sufficient opportunities to directly observe practice with service users, inspectors saw only a very limited sample of Cafcass practice

Just what where you hiding from OFSTED Inspectors then Cafcass?

The overall effectiveness of the Cafcass North Yorkshire and Humberside service area is inadequate. While to some extent the service area meets the Cafcass statutory functions and resources are deployed effectively to ensure that this is sustained, the leadership team is very new and minimum standards are not met in key areas of service delivery to children and families.

There are weaknesses in many aspects of management and service
provision to children and families. Case planning, assessment, intervention, direct
work, complaints handling, equality and diversity and the overall promotion of
improved outcomes for children and young people are inadequate. While duty
systems have been introduced to manage cases on the waiting list they do not yet
offer a direct service to children and families whose cases have not been allocated.
The area has only recently recognised the complexities and challenges involved in
managing a large group of staff who work from home and are geographically
dispersed.

Prior to the inspection the leadership of the service had not accurately assessed the amount of change required to achieve sustained improvement in service delivery to children and families. The service area has now assessed appropriately that its most significant weaknesses are in the effectiveness of its performance improvement and the accountability of its staff and managers.

Cafcass (York) acknowledge failures re performance, improvement and accountability.

Cafcass do not appraise the situation at dispute correctly and seek instead to simply read social services (bias and factually inaccurate) files. There is a common theme appearing whereby Cafcass reports are simply reworded extracts of social services files and reports of so-called Independent Expert Witnesses.

Engagement with service users is very weak, particularly their influence on improving service design and delivery.

At least OFSTED can acknowledge Cafcass do NOT work with service users.

Cafcass dig themselves an even deeper hole by knowingly providing the family courts with factually inaccurate reports. Some even go as far as to state the children have Attachment Disorders' which have never even been diagnosed by a healthcare professional. Such diagnoses should only ever be made a child psychiatrist whom specialises in the condition. Many of these claims are overly exaggerated by Cafcass to secure the final orders requested by other parties. It is such a shame for the children that their lives are blighted by endless lies, many of which will remain on file and follow them into adulthood.

Cafcass Guardian Ad Litems are NOT qualified to make any such diagnosis as they are nothing more than glorified social workers, as they are registered with the General Social Care Council. This conduct should be regulated by Cafcass management, whom refuse to register parental concerns and complaints. Those who do dare to complain are classed as hostile, aggressive and even vexatious by Cafcass.

While robust human resources action has been taken with those staff who have been assessed as in need of performance improvement, that action is unnecessarily limited to a focus on compliance and it is not yet effective. Capacity to improve is inadequate.

Why do these Cafacss employees retain their positions? Given their responsibility to assess a parents capacity to change if they are struggling to parent, this seems frankly odd that Cafcass officers themselves are deemed incapable of change.


Cafcass rarely provide children with wishes and feelings packs, as they are required to be law. Leaving many courts without an accurate account of the child's true wishes and feelings, for which purpose the booklets are intended. This is in breach of Cafcass National Standards. Is it any wonder this organisation is failing nationally if they are simply not inputting the work required. The child(ren)'s voice is being supressed by a national organisation created by the government to ensure their voices are heard, in addition to the organisation being created by the government to assist the family courts. This is simply NOT happening, the only people Cafcass are assisting is themselves and Social Services (Local Authorities).

Many Cafcass Guardian Ad Litems are self-employed and choose what hours they work, often rudely interrupting families at weekends and in thye evenings, which is unneccessary and inappropriate. Being self-employed they are going to want to support Social Services to needlessly snatch children to secure Best Value Performance Indicators, they would not want their income to dry up would they????

Worse of all Cafcass York, have ben known to instruct solicitors (Mr Philip Andrew Goodall of Harrowells, York) whom has judgements against him name imposed by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority for misuse of clients funds and whose own practice was forcibly closed by the Law Society due to the misuse of funds by the partners. Hardly the type of legal representative whom should be instructed to advocate and act for a national public office?

The above is clear evidence of :
PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
PERJURY
MALFEASANCE OF OFFICE
MALADMINISTRATION
This is not conduct befitting an officer of a National Government Organisation!

Where is the accountability now as NO action has ever been taken against this corrupt Cafcass officer - Mr Alan Bradley.