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, Mental Health

Mental Health Foundation: BME groups face capacity act barriers

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Baroness Morgan vows to embed UN child rights charter in UK

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Adult protection: Mind issues warning over state intervention

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Legal

Enter a social care law competition – win a hamper

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Adults, Children, Legal, Workforce

Dance changes troubled youths into achievers

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Children, Legal, Workforce

National Carers Rights Day puts focus on carers’ problems

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Vetting and barring: Judge fears ISA scheme could breach rights

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Workforce, Legal

Political correctness and its effect on practice

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Children, Legal

The work of a children’s solicitor

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Children, Legal, Mental Health, Adults, Workforce

Social services face review over rapist father

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Children, Legal, Mental Health, Adults, Workforce

News round up: Social services face review over rapist father

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Adults, Legal

DH gives go-ahead for legal review of adult care

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Mental Capacity Act court decisions in the first year

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Adults, Children, Legal

Tribunals overhaul affects social workers and detained patients

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Children, Legal, Workforce

CC LIVE: Fostering Network slams age cut-off at 16 for care plans

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Legal, Mental Health, Adults, Workforce

Cynthia Bower warns care providers on enforcement

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