Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 13
13
Absence of shared strategy for family justice system across departments.
Conclusion
There is no shared strategy for the whole system across all the departments involved. DfE told us that there is a published strategy document for children’s social care, and that the FJB has shared objectives and targets. MoJ and DfE accepted, however, that they could put more narrative and clarity around them, in a strategy-style document, which is not something they had done to date.22 MoJ told us that FJB has set six specific priorities, but could not confirm how, and by when, FJB expects these priorities to be delivered, nor what mechanism it would use to hold individual bodies to account for delivery of its priorities and the statutory time limit of 26 weeks applicable to most public law cases.23