Family Court Statistics Quarterly: July to September 2021
Quarterly data on the volume of cases dealt with by family courts over time, with statistics also broken down for the main types of case involved.
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This report presents the latest statistics on type and volume of cases that are received and processed through the family court system of England and Wales in the third quarter of 2021 (July to September).
The material contained within this publication was formerly contained in Court Statistics Quarterly, a publication combining Civil, Family and Criminal court statistics.
Notice: For this quarter’s publication round only, an additional csv has been published, ‘Public Law DFJ applications and orders’. This provides a breakdown of applications and orders granted for a specific set of public law and adoption related types of order.
Also there has been a revision on how domestic violence cases are counted, moving from counting all cases that involved a domestic violence remedy to counting only cases that fall under the Family Law Act (i.e. stripping out any Children Act/adoption cases already counted elsewhere).
Pre-release access
In addition to Ministry of Justice (MOJ) professional and production staff, pre-release access to the quarterly statistics of up to 24 hours is granted to the following postholders:
Ministry of Justice
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice; Minister of State; 2 Parliamentary Under Secretary of States; Lords spokesperson; Permanent Secretary; Principal Private Secretary; Deputy Principal Private Secretary; 6 Private Secretaries; 7 Deputy Private Secretaries; 14 Assistant Private Secretaries; 3 Special Advisors; President of the Family Division; Head of News; Head of Content and Channels; Head of Communications at the Office for Public Guardian; Deputy Head of News; Senior Digital Content Manager; 2 Chief Press Officers; 2 Press Officers; Chief Finance Officer; Director General, Policy and Strategy Group; Family Justice Director, Director of Data and Analytical Services; Chief Statistician; 15 Policy and Analytical Advisors.
Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS)
Interim Chief Executive; Head of Court Tribunal Service Centre; National Services Director; Head of Family Modernisation and Improvement; Delivery Director, National Business Services; Deputy Director, Family Operations; Operation lead, Divorce; Head of Operational Performance; Head of Data and MI Delivery; 3 Operational Managers.