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<p>Since the Assessing Risk of Harm to Children and Parents in Private Law Children
Cases report was published in June 2020, good progress has been made on delivering
the commitments taken forward in the Government’s Implementation Plan, with the majority
of these completed or well under way.</p><p>We have designed and are piloting a more
investigative – and less adversarial - approach for private law proceedings in Dorset
and North Wales, in particular for survivors of domestic abuse. At the heart of this
model is closer multiagency working which has led to improved communication, greater
consistency in information and multi-disciplinary training. The pilot courts work
closely with the specialist domestic abuse sector including Independent Domestic Abuse
Advisers to ensure that adequate domestic abuse risk assessments and support is in
place. Alongside this, the Judicial College has launched new domestic abuse digital
training packages for the judiciary and has rolled out a programme of compulsory domestic
abuse training for family and civil judges. Monitoring and evaluation of the pilots
is ongoing and will inform any decision on rolling out the process further, we anticipate
this will be concluded in early 2024.</p><p>In April 2023, Family Procedure Rule Committee
amended the Family Procedure Rules and Practice Directions to allow Independent Domestic
Violence Advisers and Independent Sexual Violence Advisers to accompany parties in
the courtroom.</p><p>My Department will shortly publish a full update on all Harm
Panel commitments.</p>
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