Legal

All our recent legal stories are below. But if you need more, Community Care Inform Children and Community Care Inform Adults provide digested versions of all the major statutes that govern the work of social workers and other professionals working to support children and young people, and adults, respectively. For more information email the Community Care Inform helpdesk

Children, Workforce

How to comply with court rulings on section 20

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Adults, Workforce

How the law restricts entitlement to social care for people from abroad

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Children, Workforce

Judge commends ‘tremendous’ efforts to engage parents who attacked services on social media

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Workforce

‘We social workers must shed our awe of the law to focus on the client’

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Children, Workforce

Judge criticises police for flawed evidence gathering from children in abuse case

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Adults, Workforce

Your continuing healthcare questions answered

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Workforce

Confident under cross-examination? Improving social work evidence in court

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Children, Workforce

Court backs care for children after mum tried taking them to Islamic State

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Adults, Workforce

Your Care Act questions answered on assessment and eligibility

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Children, Workforce

Judge criticises council for section 20 ‘drift’

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Children, Workforce

Judge criticises independent social worker for ‘face value’ assessment of abusive father

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Children, Workforce

Judge recommends family group conferencing in non-accidental injury case

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Children, Workforce

Council that failed to risk assess convicted sex offender heavily criticised by judge

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Workforce

Social worker assessments relied on more heavily in court as use of experts dwindles

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Children, Workforce

Local authorities not held to account as legal support for migrant families pulled

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Children, Workforce

Concern for a child’s welfare can never justify illegal practice

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