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A redesigned Children’s Hearings System must separate:

  • procedural decisions relating to the Hearing itself, and
  • the decisions made by the Hearing.

A Chair could take some procedural decisions without needing to convene a full Panel in advance of a Hearing. There should be an assessment to understand which decisions these are. This should include:

  • carefully examining whether anything needs to change in legislation,
  • carefully examining whether anything needs to change in procedural rules.

These changes would be intended to:

  • allow for better decision-making, and
  • eliminate structural drift and delay in the system.