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

Workforce

Whistleblowing care professionals ‘priced out of justice’

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Legal experts call for greater transparency in the Court of Protection

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Adults, Children, Mental Health, Workforce

Find your inner legal eagle at Community Care Live 2015

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Conduct hearings ‘do not have to meet every requirement of a fair trial’, says Scottish judge

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Children, Workforce

Scotland consults on controversial ‘named person’ proposals

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Workforce

Government regulation stance fails to address human rights concerns, says union

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Children, Workforce

Grooming suspects banned from contact with girls under 18 in groundbreaking ruling

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Adults, Workforce

A wider definition of domestic abuse will help social workers safeguard more adult victims

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Adults, Mental Health, Deprivation of liberty, Workforce

‘The simple idea that has shaken adult social care to its foundations’

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Council unlawfully deprived woman of liberty due to ignorance of Mental Capacity Act

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Children, Workforce

Legal Aid squeeze hindering young people’s ability to get justice, warns children’s commissioner

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Workforce

Wirral social care whistleblower says “there’s not enough money in the world” to make up for his family’s trauma

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Children, Workforce

How new civil prevention orders could improve child safeguarding practice

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Adults, Workforce

Care Act will increase legal burdens on social workers, warn directors

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Adults, Workforce

The Care Act’s reforms to social care funding: key issues that need resolving

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Family judge criticises NQSW for “unacceptable delays” in complex fostering case

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