CAFCASS
“ We are dealing with about 11 % more children than pre-pandemic at the moment . So that ' s about 6,500 additional children ”
ROBERT LANGLEY CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER , CAFCASS
Cafcass has gone from being rated by Ofsted , the inspector , as inadequate in 2008 to being ranked as outstanding a decade later , representing an impressive turnaround which was driven by a single-minded focus to improve how the organisation works .
“ I arrived as part of a new team of people coming into all sorts of different parts of the organisation to transform Cafcass , because we were pretty low as an organisation ,” Langley explains . “ There was quite a lot of criticism from all sorts of different sources , and we were getting the worst possible ratings from the inspectors .
356 January 2023