Angela Killa
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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That gatekeeping hearing isn't attended by the parties or by advocates.
The child impact report is quite a significant feature of the child focused courts, where CAFCAS or KAFCAS Camry or social services, if they're involved.
will gather information at an early stage.
That includes undertaking safeguarding inquiries, obtaining information from relevant agencies and importantly, and central to the purpose of the report, obtaining the child's foods where that's possible.
Domestic abuse services can also play a part in that report and contribute to risk assessment and that report will usually take between six to eight weeks.
The next stage is gatekeeping two, which again is conducted without parties or representatives being in attendance.
The court would decide at that stage whether they can move on to making decisions, whether there's been an agreement between the parties, which can result in a paper order being provided at that stage without anybody having attended court.
They may consider mediation under the adjudication path.
Or they'll look at whether it needs to move on to something more similar to what the CAP is currently, where the case management path would allow further evidence to be filed, reports may be required, for example.
I would say the terminology can differ depending on where you are in the country as to whether they're called adjudication path and case management path.
They may be called something different where you are.
But another major distinction between the two ways of dealing with children matters now is that the FHDRA, as we know it, has been replaced under the child focus courts with a decision hearing.
This is a judge led conciliation hearing and where appropriate the court can make final decisions at that hearing rather than listing multiple directions or decision hearings.
The child focused caught.
tries its best to be front loaded in relation to the investigation of risk and welfare, as well as hearing the child's voice early on in proceedings, which hopefully enables the court to make decisions more quickly.
It provides a stronger focus on trying to understand the child's experience and reducing the adversarial nature that maybe proceedings under CAP are.
Both systems try to achieve what is in the child's best interests, but the child focus courts does that in a more inquisitorial and evidence gathering process rather than maybe an adversarial process that we may have been used to.
So obviously uh Elizabeth has already referred to practice direction thirty six Z, which also refers within net to practice direction twelve B.
Many are calling for that to be updated and provide further clarity because there isn't one place that you can find the guidance other than those practice directions at the moment.
There is local operational protocols that are developing alongside the practice directions and information is available on the Ministry of Justice website.
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