House of Lords written question – answered at on 12 March 2012.
Lord Wills
Labour
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service have allocated to self-employed practitioners in each quarter since the first quarter of 2007.
Lord Hill of Oareford
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
The Department for Education does not hold this information but I have asked the chief executive of CAFCASS to reply. A copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Letter from Anthony Douglas, Chief Executive, CAFCASS, to Lord Wills, dated
I am writing to you in order to provide answers to the Parliamentary Question that you tabled recently:
HL15980 Lord Wills: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service have allocated to self-employed practitioners in each quarter since the first quarter of 2007.
Please see the table below which indicates the number of cases allocated to self-employed contractors for each quarter between 2007 to 2011.
| Number of cases allocated to self employed contractors | |
| Q1 2007 | 976 |
| Q2 2007 | 893 |
| Q3 2007 | 977 |
| Q4 2007 | 843 |
| Q1 2008 | 892 |
| Q2 2008 | 690 |
| Q3 2008 | 755 |
| Q4 2008 | 741 |
| Q1 2009 | 922 |
| Q2 2009 | 747 |
| Q3 2009 | 696 |
| Q4 2009 | 656 |
| Q1 2010 | 711 |
| Q2 2010 | 693 |
| Q3 2010 | 654 |
| Q4 2010 | 625 |
| Q1 2011 | 596 |
| Q2 2011 | 484 |
| Q3 2011 | 484 |
| Q4 2011 | 582 |
Please note:
1. Figures in the above table are provided from the CAFCASS national case management system (CMS) The unit of measurement is a case, upon its receipt by CAFCASS from the Court and its entry into CMS. A case can have multiple applications and an application can involve multiple children. CMS is a live system and any late entries will be accounted for at the time of release of subsequent updates to this data.
2. If a case was allocated more than once in a different quarter, it will be counted each time in that quarter.
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