Cafcass starts prioritising London private law cases to ‘maintain safe workloads for social workers’

Cafcass has started prioritising the allocation of “less urgent” private law cases in London to help maintain safe workloads for its social workers.
The decision to institute the prioritisation protocol comes on the back of a 27% rise in the number of private law applications in the capital over the past 12 months.
The family courts body said the decision was also driven by the challenges it and partners faced in maintaining staffing levels and the impact of ongoing family court dela