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Children and Families Act 2014

Inquiry by the Children and Families Act 2014 Committee, 4 March 2022 to 6 December 2022. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • : Mr Stephen Kingdom, Disabled Children's Partnership; Christine Lenehan DBE, National Children's Bureau; Imogen Jolley, Public Practice
  • : Sarah Blackmore, Spire Barrister Leeds; Nuffield Family Justice Observatory Lisa Harker, Nuffield Family Justice Observatory; Hannah Markham QC, 36 Family
  • 14 March 2022: Andre Imich, Department for Education; Sophie Langdale, Department for Education; Neal Barcoe, Ministry of Justice
  • 21 March 2022: Beth Neil, University of East Anglia Centre for Reserach on Children and Families
  • 21 March 2022: Jo Mitchell, PAC UK; Elaine Farmer, University of Bristol; Lucy Peake, Kinship
  • 28 March 2022: Sarah Johal, Regional Adoption Agencies; Carol Homden, Coram; Alexandra Conroy-Harris, CoramBAAF
  • 28 March 2022: Joanne Alper, Adoption Plus; Natausha van Vliet, Parents and Children Together; Mandy Davies, Parents and Children Together
  • 4 April 2022: Professor Judith Masson, University of Bristol; Julie Doughty
  • 4 April 2022: Naomi Angell, Osbornes Law; Al Coates, Adoption and Fostering Podcast
  • 23 May 2022: Mavis Mclean, University of Oxford, Department of Social Policy and Innovation; Sir James Munby, Family Division
  • 23 May 2022: Rosemary Hunter, University of Kent; Bob Greig, Only Mums & Dads
  • 6 June 2022: Ade Larigo, Agency Connection; Yoni Ejo, Diversity Adopt
  • 20 June 2022: Ms Alexandra Hall-Chen, Institute of Directors; Jane van Zyl, Working Families
  • 20 June 2022: Joeli Brearley, Pregnant Then Screwed; Ms Olga FitzRoy, Parental Pay Equality
  • 27 June 2022: Sir Andrew McFarlane, Family Division; Jacky Tiotto, CAFCASS; Steve Crocker, OBE, Association of Directors of Children’s Services
  • 18 July 2022: Kadra Abdinasir, Centre for Mental Health & Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition; Dr Elaine Lockhart, the Royal College of Psychiatrist’s Child and Adolescent Faculty
  • 5 September 2022: Dr Matt Woolgar, National Adoption and Fostering Service, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust
  • 5 September 2022: Dame Rachel de Souza, Children's Commissioner for England
  • 5 September 2022: Anne Longfield CBE, Commission on Young Lives
  • 17 October 2022: Kelly Tolhurst, Department for Education; Sophie Langdale, Department for Education; Lord Bellamy, Ministry of Justice; Neal Barcoe, Ministry of Justice; Dean Russell, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; Mike Warren, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy