Social workers handling private law cases should be NAAS accredited ‘to tackle significant skills weakness’

Social workers carrying out assessments for private law proceedings should be accredited to tackle “significant weakness” in their knowledge and skills, particularly in relation to domestic abuse, experts have said.
The call came in a report assessing how the family courts respond to harm to children and parents in private proceedings, specifically domestic abuse and child sexual abuse, which was heavily critical of practice by Cafcass in relation to children and victims of