Member

Amendment 8 would put into legislation the requirement for a meeting to be facilitated by an independent trained co-ordinator and for the process to include private time for the family network members. This means that you get someone who is not from the local authority, which many of the family might be worried about and afraid of, and who is not from the court, about which they may also have the same view. It is someone who is able to understand first and foremost the needs of the child and where they are coming from, and then work out with everyone else what will happen, how it will happen and how they will conduct the process.