Care applications remain at highest ever level

[Alison J Stevens]

Care applications remain at highest ever level

Cafcass report care application figures for April to August 2010

Care application demand in the period between April and August 2010 has remained at a very high level. Cafcass received 3,744 new applications.
This figure is 3.7 % higher when compared to the same period last year.
The April, May, July and August application numbers were the highest
ever recorded by Cafcass for these individual months. March 2010 had
seen highest ever number of care applicatons recorded in an individual
month, with 851 applications. As a whole, 2009-10 saw a 35.9% increase
in public law care applications when compared to 2008/09.

For a graph showing the rate of applications since April 2006, click here.

Value-Care proceedings.