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, Mental Health, Adults, Workforce

Foster parents not warned of teen sex offender

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Children, Legal, Mental Health, Adults, Workforce

News round up: Foster parents not warned of teen sex offender

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Adults, Legal

Landmark court decisions for adult protection

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Children, Legal, Mental Health, Workforce

Jury blasts staff over death in cell

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Children, Legal, Mental Health, Workforce

News round up: Jury blasts staff over death in cell

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Children, Legal

Immigration law and social care

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

High Court reverses CPS decision on man with mental health issues

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Children, Legal, Mental Health

Official guidance: ‘Let children eat poisonous plants’

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Children, Legal, Mental Health

News round up: Govt guidance: ‘Let children eat poisonous plants’

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Free aftercare services under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Proven Practice: personal finance and the Mental Capacity Act

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Mental Health, Legal

NAS heralds Autism Bill as ‘huge step forward’

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Children, Legal

Recent case law developments about adoption

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Adults, Children, Legal, Workforce

Letters to Community Care 8 January 2009

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Watchdog: UK’s disability rights reputation at risk over UN charter

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Legal, Mental Health

NHS Trusts must do more to protect detained patients from suicide

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