Child protection

Guidance and services

• Ending physical punishment in Wales
• Safeguarding guidance
• Cafcass Cymru Practice Framework: Putting Children First
• Guidance for Cafcass Cymru practitioners about children experiencing domestic abuse
• Finding of fact hearings: practice guidance for Cafcass Cymru practitioners
• Working Together for Children (WT4C): factsheet
• A declaration of radical reform for children and young people's care
• Intimate piercing: information for young people under 18
• Cafcass Cymru: rule 16.4 pilot factsheets
• Cafcass Cymru: factsheet about the role of a children’s guardian in care proceedings
• The role of Cafcass Cymru in Private Law proceedings: factsheet
• Explaining Family Court decisions to children: guidance for parents and carers
• Information about the Family Court: leaflet for children and young people
• Intimate piercing: guidance for local authority enforcement officers
• Cafcass Cymru: statements of expectations
• Cafcass Cymru: accessing your personal information
• Cafcass Cymru: diversity and inclusion factsheet
• Cafcass Cymru complaints guidance
• Cafcass Cymru: freedom of information factsheet
• Cafcass Cymru privacy notice
• Family Assistance and Monitoring Orders: factsheet
• Supervised family time (supervised contact): factsheet

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Act 2020 Strategic Implementation Group meeting: 27 April 2022
  Meeting
  Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Act 2020 Implementation Groups
• #TalkParenting: online engagement report
  Report
• Welsh Government response to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse
  Report
• Order made by the Welsh Ministers under Section 84 of the Children Act 1989 (2010 No.49)
  Legislation
• Order Made by the Welsh Ministers under Section 84 of the Children Act 1989 (2009 No.12)
  Legislation
• Cafcass Cymru Advisory Committee meeting minutes
  Collection
  Cafcass Cymru
• Review of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) policy: report
  Report
• Cafcass Cymru annual reports
  Collection
  Cafcass Cymru
• Cafcass Cymru: diversity and inclusion strategy programme
  Policy and strategy
  Cafcass Cymru
• Domestic Abuse Improvement and Cultural Change: update statement July 2024
  Report
  Cafcass Cymru