Children and Adoption Act 2006

Children and Adoption Act 2006

2006 CHAPTER 20

Commentary on Sections and Schedules

Part 1 - Orders with respect to children in family proceedings

Section 2 - Monitoring contact

28. In addition to the power to ask a CAFCASS officer to monitor compliance with contact activity directions and contact activity conditions under new section 11G, section 11H of the 1989 Act, inserted by section 2, provides that a court may ask a CAFCASS officer to monitor compliance with a contact order, and to report to the court on such matters relating to compliance as the court may specify. The court may ask the CAFCASS officer to carry out this role for a period of up to a year. The court may not request monitoring of an order which is an ‘excepted order’. Those who can be subject to monitoring are:

• a person who is required to allow contact with the child;

• a person whose contact with the child is provided for;

• a person who is subject to a condition under section 11(7)(b) of the 1989 Act.