Member

My amendments focus on the critical issue of when this process is introduced. Our basic premise is that the family group decision-making process should be implemented as early as possible, when it starts to become clear that the child is at risk. My Amendment 2 would put family group decision-making at the start of child protection proceedings, and the noble Baroness will know that this was raised by Jacky Tiotto, the CEO of Cafcass, in her oral evidence to the Public Bill Committee in the other place. It is also supported by the Family Rights Group.