The Family Committee comprises members of the judiciary (as course directors or representing the JSB's Equal Treatment Committee and Principal Registry of the Family Division), representatives of the legal profession, an academic lawyer and the Department of Constitutional Affairs. It is chaired by a High Court Judge from the Family Division, currently Mrs Justice Black .

The Committee is responsible for planning, delivering and evaluating training for members of the full and part time judiciary sitting in the County Courts, the Principal Registry of the Family Division and the full time District Judges who sit in the Family Proceedings Courts. Delivery is undertaken in a variety of ways including via the Benchbook (accessible on-line), other written materials (also available electronically to the judiciary) and one day courses both circuit based and nationally. Focussed training is provided through residential seminars. A two-day seminar is held in May each year for senior family judges who meet with the President of the Family Division and the High Court Family Division Liaison Judges for each Circuit in England and Wales together with other High Court Judges and specialist members of the Court of Appeal. Other seminars provide induction training for those who will undertake public and/or private family law cases and continuation seminars are held in both disciplines for those already undertaking the work.

In addition to updating participants on current decisions, relevant research and pending legislation, seminars combine as appropriate, instruction in judgecraft with lectures, case studies and discussion on related disciplines such as social work, child psychology and psychiatry and paediatrics. Considerable emphasis is placed on the protection of vulnerable children and adults from discrimination. No less emphasis is placed on the important issue of domestic abuse, in particular domestic violence, its effect on the adults abused and the children who witness or who may become involved in it. The enforcement of orders directed to preventing recurrence of such abuse forms an important part of residential seminars.