Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 19
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)
DfE told us its major contribution to the overall system is to reduce the flow of cases to family courts. It told us that successive governments have under-invested in children’s social care but the Spending Review in June this year announced over £2 billion of new investment in Children’s social care. This could help provide better family support “so that more and more children can stay safety with their families and do not ever go into the family court system”.40 34 IFC0091 35 Q 49 36 Qq 44, 47; IFC0074, IFC0079, IFC0091 37 Qq 26, 35, 46, 48; C&AG’s Report, paras 3.8-3.11 38 Q 44; C&AG’s Report, para 3.11 39 C&AG’s Report, para 3.11 40 Q 26 14 2 Taking a whole system approach to overcome barriers and improve family justice Tackling shortages in district judges and social workers
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).