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<p>Ministers at the Ministry of Justice hold regular discussions with the President
of the Family Division on a range of issues. The Government fully recognises that
family proceedings should be as transparent as possible, and welcomes the progress
that has been made towards greater openness together with the review on transparency
that the President of the Family Division is currently undertaking. Accredited media
have been allowed access to certain hearings in the family courts since 2009, and
in 2014 the previous President of the Family Division issued guidance leading to the
increased publication of judgments. A pilot allowing legal bloggers to report on family
proceedings has been running since 2018, and the current President of the Family Division
published new guidance on anonymising judgments for publication in 2018 and reporting
in the family courts in 2019.</p><p>Greater transparency must be weighed against the
need to safeguard children and their family’s privacy given the extremely sensitive
information about them that the family courts often need to consider. The Government
will continue to work with the senior judiciary to ensure that the right balance is
struck between transparency and privacy.</p><p> </p>
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