The Family Procedure Rules 2010 No. 2955 (L. 17)

PART 16 E+W REPRESENTATION OF CHILDREN AND REPORTS IN PROCEEDINGS INVOLVING CHILDREN

CHAPTER 12 E+W SUPPLEMENTARY APPOINTMENT PROVISIONS

Persons who may not be appointed as children's guardian, reporting officer or children and family reporter E+W

16.36.—(1) In [F1 specified proceedings (except where paragraph (2) applies),] adoption proceedings or proceedings for a section 84 order or a section 89 order, no person may be appointed as a children's guardian, reporting officer or children and family reporter who—

(a) is a member, officer or servant of a local authority which is a party to the proceedings;

(b) is, or has been, a member, officer or servant of a local authority or voluntary organisation who has been directly concerned in that capacity in arrangements relating to the care, accommodation or welfare of the child during the 5 years prior to the start of the proceedings; or

(c) is a serving probation officer who has, in that capacity, been previously concerned with the child or the child's family.

(2) In placement proceedings, a person described in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) may not be appointed as a children's guardian, reporting officer or children and family reporter.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in rule 16.36(1) inserted (6.4.2012) by The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2012 (S.I. 2012/679), rules 1, 23 (with rule 30)

Appointment of the same person as children's guardian, reporting officer and children and family reporter E+W

16.37.  The same person may be appointed to act as one or more of the following—

(a) the children's guardian;

(b) the reporting officer; and

(c) the children and family reporter.