Child Arrangements Orders
Commons · Question 99561 · Tabled 12 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by James Wild
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has recently assessed the potential merits of reviewing the weighting given to a child's views in child arrangement orders in cases where there is an unresolved disagreement between parents
Answer
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones, 19 Dec 2025
The Government does not have any plans to undertake a formal assessment of the efficacy of child arrangement orders. However, we have recently published a review of the courts’ application of the presumption of parental involvement that explored the impac...