Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 13
45th Report - Improving family court services for children
Published 12 Sep 2025
Addressed to HM Treasury
Public Accounts Committee Improving family court services for children All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
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
From: Public Accounts Committee, 45th Report - Improving family court services for children (HC 883), 12 September 2025
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 4 June 2026 (deadline 12 November 2025).