Family Law Week Podcast Season 9 Episode 4

In this episode, Westgate Chambers Barrister Scott Sharp, hosts Jude Eyre, Associate Director at the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, Anna Yarde from Harcourt Chambers as well as "Anne" a young person and member of the Family Justice Young People's Board. In this episode we discuss; the President of the Family Division's recently published resource for judges – Writing to Children – A Toolkit. The President of the Family Division published this toolkit for family judges to support them in writing to the children.  As the toolkit sets out, judges writing to children is a key means by which judges can ensure children feel heard and are supported to understand what the family court has decided in relation to their family and why. Judges writing to children is one important way of supporting children's participation in proceedings. It allows children to hear directly from the person who made life changing decisions about them and their family. Letters of this type can help ensure children know that the judge was thinking about them and understand how their views, thoughts and feelings were taken into account. This episode of the Family Law Week Podcast is produced by Stuart Taylor-Jones.