Social workers as expert witnesses in Family Courts – 8.11.2013 VIDEO

Related Sector: Health & Social Care

 

Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division for England and Wales, spoke at this year’s Annual Bond Solon Expert Witness Conference. He has emphasised that in his view ‘social workers are experts…they may not be experts for the purpose of Part 25 of the FPR but that does not mean that they are not experts in every other sense of the word.’

We discussed these new responsibilities facing social worker’s with:

• Isabelle Trowler, Chief Social Worker for Children’s and Families,
• Jenifer Bernard, The College of Social Work, and
• Anthony Douglass CBE, Chief Executive of Cafcass.