Cafcass Parental Alienation Webinar Training

In a FOI request around the training Cafcass will be providing to their staff on the new Child Impact Reports Cafcass included this snippet in their response:
In March 2017, Anthony Douglas, Chief Executive of Cafcass, led a live webinar discussion on parental alienation attended by 64 staff members, providing participants with the opportunity to share and discuss their experience of cases featuring alienating behaviours. This included discussion of child impact analysis to set out the evidence base indicating parental alienation.
Cafcass were asked:
“Please provide a copy of this webinar. “
They responded:
This webinar was a live discussion and so Cafcass does not have a copy of the
webinar to disclose. An audio recording of the webinar discussion was
produced however this contains discussionof cases by staff and so contains
personal information of staff and service users.Disclosure is therefore exempt under Section 40 of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000.
“Please confirm how many of the 64 staff members were FCAs.”
33 Family Court Advisers (FCAs) attended the webinar. Please note this figure includes Agency FCAs. The other staff members who attended the webinar included managers and corporate staff.
Please confirm how many staff members have subsequently viewed this webinar.
As the webinar was held live, it is not available for subsequent viewing.
However, 59 members of staff have listened to the audio recording.
Please confirm the platform and/or software that you use to distribute and view
webinars.
Webinars are held live using Skype for Business.
Please provide a list of all webinars provided to your staff members, and viewing
rates, for 2016 and for 2017.

Originally published at The Voice of the Child.
