Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 99561

Child Arrangements Orders

Tabled: 12 December 2025
Answered: 19 December 2025

Question

James Wild

ConservativeNorth West Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has recently assessed the potential merits of reviewing the weighting given to a child's views in child arrangement orders in cases where there is an unresolved disagreement between parents

Answer

Alex Davies-Jones
The Government does not have any plans to undertake a formal assessment of the efficacy of child arrangement orders. However, we have recently published a review of the courts’ application of the presumption of parental involvement that explored the impac...

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