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, Workforce, Legal, Mental Health

Director of public prosecutions reveals assisted suicide policy

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Promoting quality in children’s services

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Children, Legal

Councils ‘struggle for fair hearing’ at press watchdog

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Children, Legal

Legal Update: Why are parents allowed to harm their children?

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Children, Legal

Cafcass: Post-baby Peter hike in care cases continues

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Adults, Legal

Book review: Safeguarding vulnerable adults and the law by M Mandelstam

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Adults, Children, Legal, Mental Health

Book review: The Approved Mental Health Professional’s Guide to Mental Health Law by Robert Brown

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Children, Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Jersey carer convicted of abuse

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Children, Adults, Legal, Mental Health

News round up: Jersey carer convicted of abuse

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Children, Legal

‘Recession and Baby P fuelling abuse claims against councils’

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Legal, Workforce, Children

Tam Baillie: Rights of offenders’ children must influence courts

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Children, Legal, Mental Health

Sharon Shoesmith’s legal challenge fast-tracked by High Court

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Children, Legal, Mental Health

News round up: Shoesmith’s challenge fast-tracked by court

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Children, Legal

How is the Public Law Outline being implemented?

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Children, Legal

Unison slams Scottish children’s hearings reforms

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Legal, Adults, Children

Appeal Court child abuse ruling may open door for claimants

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