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What period and facts govern cafcass safeguarding letter in England and Wales?

Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days. The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods.

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Period
Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days
Trigger
Actual receipt of the application by the relevant service
Rule
Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22
Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22

The retained Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22 supports provide the safeguarding letter to the court under the applicable child-arrangements procedure. Its complete-body snapshot and operative extract preserve the source edition, while the service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods.

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Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22. Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days. The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods. This source guide provides no computed date or paid record.

Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22

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What period and facts govern cafcass safeguarding letter in England and Wales?

Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days. The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods.

Responsible actor. Cafcass or Cafcass Cymru carrying out the safeguarding process.

Actual receipt of the application by the relevant service

The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods.

Cafcass or Cafcass Cymru carrying out the safeguarding process. Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days. The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods.

Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22

How does this provision count time?

  1. Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days
  2. Provide the safeguarding letter to the court under the applicable child-arrangements procedure.
  3. The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods.

Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days; count the applicable safeguarding service’s working days from actual receipt, with the national service and any operative pilot identified.

Identify which safeguarding service received the papers and when. Cafcass Cymru’s twenty-working-day period cannot be shortened to Cafcass’s seventeen or anchored to issue instead of receipt.

Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22

Which facts prevent one automatic date?

Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22. Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days. The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods. This source guide provides no computed date or paid record.

ResultRead the operative provision and establish the applicable branch.

Cafcass or Cafcass Cymru carrying out the safeguarding process has records of actual receipt of the application by the relevant service. Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days. Provide the safeguarding letter to the court under the applicable child-arrangements procedure. The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods. Establish this procedure’s complete source facts before choosing an endpoint.

The proposed cafcass safeguarding letter step meets a disputed communication, closed receiving office or uncertain hearing event. Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days; count the applicable safeguarding service’s working days from actual receipt, with the national service and any operative pilot identified. Identify which safeguarding service received the papers and when. Cafcass Cymru’s twenty-working-day period cannot be shortened to Cafcass’s seventeen or anchored to issue instead of receipt. Verify the legally completed cafcass safeguarding letter act and actual applicable calendar. No assumed closure extension or substitute date is computed.

The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods. Actual receipt of the application by the relevant service. Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days. Provide the safeguarding letter to the court under the applicable child-arrangements procedure. Resolve this source-specific qualification before relying on a result.

Which conditions and exceptions apply?

Actor and completed cafcass safeguarding letter act
Cafcass or Cafcass Cymru carrying out the safeguarding process. Provide the safeguarding letter to the court under the applicable child-arrangements procedure.
Actual cafcass safeguarding letter event and branch
Actual receipt of the application by the relevant service. The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods.
Counting and completion of cafcass safeguarding letter
Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days; count the applicable safeguarding service’s working days from actual receipt, with the national service and any operative pilot identified. Identify which safeguarding service received the papers and when. Cafcass Cymru’s twenty-working-day period cannot be shortened to Cafcass’s seventeen or anchored to issue instead of receipt.
Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22
  • Cafcass or Cafcass Cymru carrying out the safeguarding process. Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days. The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods.
  • Cafcass safeguarding letter concerns provide the safeguarding letter to the court under the applicable child-arrangements procedure. Its actual source event is actual receipt of the application by the relevant service.

What must the responsible actor complete?

Questions about this procedure

What period and facts govern cafcass safeguarding letter in England and Wales?

What period governs cafcass safeguarding letter?

Cafcass provides its letter within seventeen working days of receipt; Cafcass Cymru uses twenty working days. The service, receipt event and actual pilot or court procedure must be established. Issue alone does not start both national service periods.

Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22

Which event controls cafcass safeguarding letter?

Actual receipt of the application by the relevant service. Keep evidence of that actual source event.

Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22

What completes cafcass safeguarding letter?

Provide the safeguarding letter to the court under the applicable child-arrangements procedure. Cafcass or Cafcass Cymru carrying out the safeguarding process must establish that completed step.

Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22

Do England and Wales share the same seventeen-day period?

PD 12B paragraph 22.3 distinguishes Cafcass’s seventeen working days from Cafcass Cymru’s twenty working days.

Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22

Does court issue start the safeguarding service’s period?

The direction uses receipt of the application by the relevant service. Preserve the actual receipt evidence.

Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22

Does the safeguarding letter determine the child arrangements outcome?

The letter informs the court’s safeguarding process. It does not replace the hearing, judicial assessment or any actual further direction.

Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22

Official sources and review

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Practice Direction 12B, Child Arrangements Programme paragraph 22Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
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