Who are Cafcass, Different Types Of Child Reports Explained
& The Welfare Checklist

This Help Guide will give you an overview on Cafcass (the children and family court advisory and support service) and how they will be involved during your child arrangements case. We will also go over the different types of child arrangement reports the court can order Cafcass/social workers to produce for your case. Finally we will go through ‘the welfare checklist’ which is a legal list of considerations that the court and its associated organisations will have at the forefront of all their decisions regarding child arrangements.   

• BOX 1 – Will discuss who Cafcass are.
• BOX 2 – Will explain the different types of child reports the court can order.
• BOX 3 – Will go into detail about the welfare checklist.

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