Cafcass "spins" again

I was musing this week on a comment made by the Service Manager of Kent Cafcass at the Kent Family Justice Council last week. We were told (fanfare of trumpets) that Kent Cafcass no longer had a backlog of cases and that in all cases where the Court had Directed that an officer of Cafcass should be appointed/prepare a report, an officer had been allocated.
Closer questioning revealed that this means purely that a name has been pinned to the case but not that the officer has any prospect of starting work on it or even meeting the parties and the children in the foreseeable future.
Political spindoctors seem amateurs compared to some of the "information" emanating from Cafcass.
The saddest aspect is that it is children who suffer most from the delays in the Court process as their lives and the animosity between their parents is not put on hold whilst Cafcass do nothing.

children caught in the crossfire.

The Children's Society published research last week which had been undertaken by the University of York (so it has to be good I say as an ex-Yorkie!) which confirmed what parents ought to know but seem to completely disregard ie that children are badly affected by arguments at home and that discord in their home environment causes children distress and depression.
Staying together "for the sake of the children" may not be the right way forward for many families and I do wonder whether parents who are just thinking about separation should come in for advice much earlier, so that they can weigh up their options with a clear picture of likely outcomes, and then decide whether their children would actually be better off with inevitably less money around but also less unhappiness?