On 1st August 2023 the Legal Affairs correspondent for ‘The Guardian’ reported in an article that ‘Tens of thousands of children in England and Wales have been left in limbo by delays in the Family Court that have meant many waiting over a year for their future to be resolved’. From figures published by CAFCASS the article went on ‘In a quarter of areas, the wait in family proceedings in public law cases was double the recommended government target of 26 weeks, with the longest delays in East London and Norwich, both of which had waiting times of 60 weeks in the first three months of this year.’   The complexities of Care Proceedings   No one is more alive to last year’s statistics than the Family Court itself – it’s Judiciary and the practitioners within it. Care Proceedings remain comple...