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Family justice 2030: Professionals’ vision for the family justice system

We asked a range of professionals, and parents, how they would like the family justice system to look in 2030. Here is what they told us.

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Developing measures that matter in the family justice system

This briefing is designed to help stimulate thinking on potential measures of success for the family justice system and the kind of data that we might need.

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