Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 12
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Family Justice Board suffers infrequent meetings and high ministerial chair turnover.
Conclusion
The ministerial-led FJB was established to help organisations involved in family justice work together effectively, to improve performance and hold organisations to account internally. Although it aimed to meet quarterly, this group only met on average 2.5 times per year over the period June 2018 to December 2024. Frequent turnover in ministerial chairs and consequential churn in political leadership, with each minister attending only three meetings on average, has led to frequent refocusing of FJB’s priorities.20 MoJ and DfE recognised these issues but noted that, while the FJB is the convening authority, a lot of the work is done through subgroups at official level that meet very regularly and are looking at performance, priorities and areas that are not performing well.21 15 Qq 13, 23 - 25 16 Qq 14-16; C&AG’s Report, para 1.8 17 Qq 22-28; C&AG’s Report, para 7, Figure 8 18 C&AG’s Report, paras 9, 2.1, 2.6 19 Qq 35,36, 52, 69, 76 20 Q 62; C&AG’s Report, paras 9, 2.2 21 Q 62 11