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

Legal, Workforce

Carers strategy assessed two years on

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Children, Legal

Social services slammed over teenager’s death

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Adults, Workforce, Legal

Disabilities worker jailed for stealing £19,000 from client

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Children, Legal

Sector confronts prospect of more formal kinship care

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Children, Legal

Kinship care ruling could cost councils dear

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Pioneering 1970 disability law ‘never fulfilled its promise’

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health, Workforce

Disability rights 40 years on: Sector leaders give their view

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Disability champion looks back on pioneering 1970 law

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Children, Legal

Lawyers hit out at court fee cap on social workers

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Children, Legal

Cut in independent court report fees imperil expert input

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Legal, Workforce

‘Drunk’ social worker admonished by GSCC

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Children, Legal, Workforce

When local authorities face claims for child care negligence

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Shoesmith ‘will take some time’ to decide whether to appeal

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Children, Workforce, Legal

Shoesmith judge criticises Ofsted’s role in changing report

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Implications of verdict for Ed Balls, Haringey, Shoesmith

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Shoesmith judge questions children’s secretary’s role

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