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

Adults, Legal, Workforce

Care charity mounts legal challenge to immigrant cap

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Social workers to gain key role in any assisted suicide law

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Mental Health, Children, Legal

Carers of children with autism win High Court ruling

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Reablement charges: Community Care finds ‘serious legal failures’

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health, Workforce

What is reablement?

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health, Workforce

Wales should have own social care laws, says government

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Children, Legal

Legal Update: court guidance on dealing with child protection crises

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Children, Legal

Role of lawyers in family courts at risk

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Adviser calls on government to scrap Cafcass and dilute YJB

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Essex child services slammed by Ofsted

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Service users, personal budgets and Amsterdam

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Facing up to obstructive parents

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Children, Legal

Family justice system to ‘implode’, warns top judge

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Better access to advocates urged for adult placement users

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Children, Legal, Mental Health

Doctors’ roles in child protection under spotlight

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Children, Legal, Mental Health

Abused runaway case sparks call for ‘safety net’

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