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Family Court (FACO) - Family Courts Case Management System, Ministry of Justice

Dataset

Summary

Citation:
CITATION INCOMPLETE

Documentation

Description:
This dataset covers people involved in family court cases in England and Wales. Three tables have been created to join together information stored across multiple tables in the raw Family Court database: Cases - contains information about cases as a whole, including case type, key dates, related cases and originating court. There is one row per case. Events - contains information about events within a case, for example, hearings, applications, orders and administrative processes. There is one row per event within the case, which can be joined to cases table on the case_number_hash.

Coverage

Spatial:
United Kingdom,Wales,United Kingdom,England
Typical Age Range:
0-120
Follow Up:
OTHER
Pathway:
Justice

Provenance

Origin

Sources:
OTHER
Collection Situations:
OTHER

Temporal

Accrual Periodicity:
DAILY
Start Date:
01 January 2011
End Date:
31 January 2021
Time Lag:
LESS 1 WEEK

Accessibility

Access

Access Service:
The SAIL Databank is powered by the UK Secure e-Research Platform (UKSeRP). Following approval through safeguard processes, access to project-specific data within the secure environment is permitted using two-factor authentication.
Access Request Cost:
Data provision is free from SAIL. Overall project costing depends on the number of people that require access to the SAIL Gateway, the activities that SAIL needs to complete (e.g. loading non-standard datasets), data refreshes, analytical work required, disclosure control process, and special case technological requirements.
Jurisdictions:
GB-WLS
Data Controller:
SAIL Databank
Data Processor:
SAIL Databank

Usage

Data Use Limitations:
GENERAL RESEARCH USE
Resource Creators:
Ministry of Justice

Format and Standards

Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
LOCAL
Conforms To:
LOCAL
Languages:
en
Formats:
SQL Database Table

Enrichment and Linkage

Qualified Relations:
Yes. To any SAIL dataset & reference data.

Observations

Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
EVENTS
Activities, Cases, and People
3000000
Count
31 January 2022