Legislation

Section 16 – Family assistance orders

Introduction

This section permits the court to order a CAFCASS officer (or Welsh equivalent, or local authority officer) to provide short-term assistance to families involved in, principally, private family proceedings. As originally enacted, there were a number of restrictions on making family assistance orders. However, many of these were removed by amendments to section 16 made […]

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