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, Legal

Legal update: Disabled children and the law

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Court fees ‘insult’ to independent social workers

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Legal, Children

Maggie Atkinson comments anger Denise Fergus

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Children, Legal

Child benefits for separated parents

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Social workers spend 20 hours waiting in court per case

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Children, Legal

Jack Straw: Venables’ breach not due to new violent crime

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health, Workforce

Court ruling may increase adult care costs for councils

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Children, Legal

Jack Straw hints he may give more detail on Jon Venables case

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Inspectors urge indeterminate prison sentence review

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Children, Legal

Judge points to children’s services flaws in Khyra Ishaq case

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Legal challenges to council cuts in services

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Portability added to Personal Care at Home Bill

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Adults, Legal

Law Commission to draft new adult social care law

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Adults, Legal

Five key reforms to re-shape adult care law

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Legal, Workforce

Sheffield judgement pinpoints gender pay differences

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Children, Legal

High Court ruling on asylum-seeking children welcomed

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