Cafcass Reviews 

If you get a cafcass by the initials LS as your family court advisor . Politely request another one she is biased , she doesn’t tell you certain information you need for court which can be vital . She thinks she knows what best for the child when in fact she spend about 10 mins with your child , she’s 2 faced she’ll say something to you then something completely different in court . If your child says something to her , she grasps at straws and changes your child words . She’s tend to get her own way regardless of the child’s wellbeing
. She’s a terrible member of staff. Cafcass have requested i remove their name i wander why that is they don’t want to be named and shamed

A Narcissists dream. Cafcass helped an abusive narcissist destroy a family, believed one persons lies and ignored ALL evidence which showed the opposite, now two children are cursed to live with an evil narcissist with no contact from anyone else the children ever knew and loved. This organisation should be shut down immediately as they do far more harm than good, they are the perfect weapon for a Narcissist. Children's lives and minds damaged forever, both extended families mourning children still alive but will never be seen again.

No stars ..but no option.What I predicted some months ago happened yesterday when GCSE results came out.
The decision made by a Cafcass court judge when questioning the recalcitrant mother about the importance of attending school for the children and her reply....not important at all resulted yesterday in failure of of the four subjects he actually turned up to take.I blame you Cafcass for blighting this child's future and despair of this system. Also Ofsted with their rating for this organisation.This case has now gone to the Ombudsman and so it should!

Wow how can an un qualified cafcass employee speak to a mother several times, speak to the children several times, NOT speak to the father at all then completely ignore the children's feelings and wishes and form a BIASED judgement that not only ruins the dad's life but also the children's they are supposed to be protecting whilst giving the mum who can just throw out any un substantiated accusations and be believed on face value.
This organisation isn't protecting families it certainling isn't protecting kids and their wishes and it seems to hate dads who's lives are being destroyed by them
If you look at these reviews on here there aren't many positive yet nobody in authority seems to care or is interested, its just another organisation that thinks it can do what it wants without having to answer to anyone another biased Broken Britain story

In private law cases, the organisation is biased against safe and loving fathers (typically the non-resident parent) and not fit for purpose.

In private law cases, Cafcass doesn't protect children, it harms them, and the organisation is failing.

Cafcass has no understanding of the harm caused to children by denying children contact with safe and loving parents (typically the father).

The FCAs aren't skilled to distinguish between false
allegations and genuine allegations of harm. Typically the resident parent and usually the mother makes malicious false allegations against the non-resident parent to reduce their contact time, and claim increased child maintenance payments.

The FCAs don't understand parental alienation, and don't receive ongoing CPD training into this issue. The FCA’s lack sufficient knowledge of parental alienation and the signs/symptoms of this to support effective assessments. Parental alienation is child abuse and is causing children immeasurable psychological and emotional damage. The FCAs have no understanding that children who are alienated are trauma bonded to their abusive parent and are just surviving coercive control, so their wishes and feelings are not ascertainable. The child says things to not upset their abusive parent!

The FCAs don’t accurately assess the situation. When there was previously a good relationship between the child and the other parent, the FCAs don't ask themselves why is the child suddenly and unjustifiable rejecting the other parent (after a long time of established contact with non-resident parent).

Cafcass are under-resourced. A Cafcass section 7 report regarding the child’s wishes and feelings takes 20 weeks minimum. The impact of these timeframes is that a child can be separated from one parent for a prolonged period which creates a separated status-quo. This negatively impacts the outcome for children as the bond between child and parent becomes damaged through lack of contact or no contact before the child talks to Cafcass in interview. In addition, when the other parent comes to be interviewed by Cafcass, they are traumatised from the ordeal of not seeing their child, the ongoing court proceedings which are stressful and costly, and can come across as scared, afraid, anxious and agitated. This isn't taken into account. Due to the under-resourced Cafcass, the FCAs visit the resident parent for an in-person face to face interview, however, the interview with the non-resident parent is online. This bias means it's not a fair process.

97% of people on Trustpilot who have had contact with Cafcass have expressed negative experiences. How are Cafcass reviewing and implementing any
appropriate changes required after feedback from the community of engaging with the
service? Given Cafcass is a stand-alone organisation what independent scrutiny is the government undertaking as there are such high reporting of negative and traumatic experiences with Cafcass?

In conclusion, safe and loving parents (typically the father) are being removed or erased from their children's lives by biased Cafcass FCAs who lack sufficient knowledge, training and expertise to do their job competently. This is causing untold psychological damage to the child as they are cut off from their other parent and wider family on that side. It is also devastating for the other parent to lose contact with their child causing immense grief, pain and misery.

I’ve launched a Government petition calling for urgent reform of CAFCASS after years of biased reports, unsafe recommendations, and children’s voices being ignored. These failings are breaking families apart and leaving thousands of parents devastated and unheard.
If you or someone you know has been affected, please take a moment to sign and share the petition. Your support matters. I can’t change this alone, but together we can push for a fair, accountable system that truly protects children.
Every signature matters!
I cannot post the link so please search for
Abolish Cafcass and replace it
this can be found on the government petition page
Petition number 776120

Only given a 1 as the system doesn’t allow a zero.
Institutionally arrogant, under educated, inexperienced and incompetent to be making the decision they are charged with.
Complete lack of integrity in their behaviour the sooner this organisation is close down the better outcomes for children will be achievd

Minus 5 stars … where in a child’s childhood absolute disgusting unbelievable don’t follow the rules slap – and have too much weight in court!. condescending!. lack of knowledge of domestic abuse!

If I could give 0 stars then I would. The officer that dealt with our case was bias, she ignored crucial evidence regarding safeguarding and domestic abuse, ALL of her reports contained fictitious information and when she was appointed as our child's Guardian, she ignored our child's wishes and feelings about being scared of her father and instead recommended that she be placed with him permanently. I've never come across such a corrupt and evil organisation. They should not be entrusted with children's lives because they've completely destroyed my child's once peaceful life, and she now struggles with her mental and physical health.

I would put Zero if i could, your ex can make up false allegation and get believed without any evidence even thought the police nfa'd all allegations and even put in the report that they were putting words in my children's mouth, no history of violence or abuse but ex can say anything she like and gets believed and they even have the cheek to call you a perpetrator without any evidence, my cafcass worker wants to hope i dont bump into him, all they do is ruin peoples lives because they cant be arsed to find out the truth before writing reports

Staff have no clue. They seem inexperienced and incompetent. Like they’ve have no real life experiences. A let down to mothers and fathers and importantly children.

Had a very bad experience with them. They have believed in a lot of lies which have been told about me. They also favoured my Daughter's father's side.What I said about my Daughter's father they never noted it down. They only said good things about him even though I told them what he did. My Daughter's father lives with his toxic abusive mother. His mother wanted me to abort my child when I got pregnant and the court given my Daughter to my ex and his family. He had a car crash and my Daughter was in the car with him at the time.He is not even capable of looking after himself and most of the time he just leaves my Daughter with his mother but the court made a decision in his favor and they given my Daughter to him. I have never harmed my child in any way. I was always good with my Daughter. I always used to go to nice places with my Daughter and did crafts with Her etc.She had Her bed right next to my bed because she wanted to be close to me and they taken my Daughter of me?. I have no addictions I also never harmed anyone .
My other 2 sons live with me and they are happy with me. Cafcass are not experienced at all. They could not detect my Daughter is scared of her grandmother,that evil woman shouted at my child on few occasions one of the occasions was because my child spilled a glass with her precious wine. Where is the justice?Just because I didn't have the defence but I said the side of my story and the court given him my Daughter because he had the defence. No fairness at all.

A broken system that fails to protect victims of domestic abuse

My experience with CAFCASS and the wider family court system (including social services, police, solicitors, court , GP) has shown a severe bias that actively harms victims. Instead of protecting vulnerable children, these organizations worked together in a way that obscured long-term domestic violence and protected the perpetrator.

The system operates in a manner that leaves victims and minor children at an incredibly high risk. Certain solicitors and authorities appear to collaborate, ultimately destroying children's lives rather than safeguarding them.

If you are forced to deal with these organizations, I strongly advise the following:

Check every word: Thoroughly read every single line in reports from social services and CAFCASS. Do not take their accuracy for granted.

Get everything in writing: Do not allow solicitors or any of these organizations to conduct important business with you over the phone. Maintain a strict paper trail for everything.

Look for alternative solutions: If there is any viable, safe way to protect your children without involving these agencies, take it. The institutions that are legally mandated to protect abuse victims often end up prolonging the abuse.

This is my third attempt at making a review with Cafcass having complained about my previous two.

D**n from Cafcass in Leeds makes one sided biased reports then lies under oath claiming it’s fair.
The fact she didn’t explore my safeguarding concerns is testament to how one sided her reports are.

She encourages/supports/enables pedophiles to have unsupervised access with children.
Almost as if she’s trying to create ‘future work’ by ruining kids lives.

Record every interaction with this monster as lying is her forte.

Her manager J***e is complicit with this child abuse.

If I could give zero stars I would.

Based in London, Holborn and Barnet, I feel she was biased from the beginning, she was old friends with the court advisor whom advised the magistrates. I a the parental grandmother, of whom the family lived in my family home, the case went to a final hearing, now I can send a letter once a year ! Both parents have mental health issues, I don’t think the children’s voices where heard, and case closed without the children’s best interest. Just a number to them, that they want of their books,

Dissolve this company that's all they are good for. They are lying sceemers that break up families. You complain they ignore you.

Ignore safeguard concerns

My experience with Cafcass (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) has been extremely disappointing. I found the process to feel very one-sided, with reports that appeared biased and not fully reflective of the situation. There seemed to be a lack of meaningful engagement, and I did not feel properly listened to or understood.

Communication was also a significant issue. Phone calls were not returned, and there was little effort made to maintain consistent contact. This made an already stressful situation even more difficult to manage.

I was particularly concerned about the tone of some of the comments made in reports, which came across as dismissive and, at times, insensitive. There did not seem to be enough consideration given to the emotional impact these statements can have on families.

Overall, my experience with Cafcass has been negative. I believe there needs to be greater effort towards balanced assessments, improved communication, and a more empathetic approach when dealing with families in vulnerable positions.

I think that if you are dealing with a family court matter understandably emotions are going to be running very very high as are stress levels, especially when they relate to children. Having read the multiple nightmare reviews on here I was very on edge about my appointment with Cafcass. The downsides: the appointment was made incredibly close to the deadline making the process more stressful and giving me practically no time to prepare my position statement after the section 7. My section 7 appointment also only lasted 30 minutes which meant the depth of the case and the details were missed.
Now onto the good sides: the officer was very friendly and warm. Although it is important to remember this is not a casual conversation, he was very easy to speak to. I think he was capable of reading between lines without me needing to sound entrenched. The clue here is in your preparation. I think most of of us place a lot of responsibility on Cafcass, understandably. If Is my opinion that they, have a framework that they work within and it is our job as the parent to understand that and make it work best for us. It is a system that is a blame, not Cafcass as a standalone. One of my children was very anxious about talking to him, but again, he was really kind to her and put her at ease which naturally made the process slightly less stressful as I was worried about the impact it would have. They won’t be interested in mudslinging, you can convey your point effectively in a different way. I hope after my journey finishes, I can help people with strategy and guidance in this regard because I feel that this was a key to the recommendations that were made in the report. It wasn’t perfect, but it did just enough and as long as the outcome is ultimately a positive one, and the children are happy, this is the main goal. So if you are in a situation where you have an upcoming safeguarding interview or section 7, I know it’s as difficult and I know you shouldn’t need to think tactically, but you must put in the time and you must do the research to assist in getting the best possible outcome.

Absolutely corrupt and waste of space institution. Don’t ever fall at their hands and hold the whoever does your report accountable. These people are sole destroyers of the family unit.