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, Legal

Children 1st: Child witnesses still being failed by judicial system

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Anthony Douglas pledges Cafcass will improve on private law

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Office of the Public Guardian struggles with workload in first year

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Children, Legal

Latest case law in relation to children’s human rights

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Safeguarding: should councils have a duty of care to vulnerable adults?

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Workforce, Legal, Adults

Research: Brokerage and co-operation

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Legal, Children

Court of Appeal quashes MoJ rules on restraint in STCs

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Legal Update: Courts rule on duty of care and strict liability in adult care sector

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Cafcass spending shift leads to loss of self-employed practitioners

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Law Commission reviews adult social care law

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Failed asylum seekers being denied right to free NHS care

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Children, Legal

MP alleges that child abuse has been ‘covered up’ on Jersey

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Conservatives propose chief social worker role

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Podcast: The carers strategy and social care law

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Children, Legal

Cafcass: Law Lords ruling on abuse claims will remove confusion

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Adults, Legal

Law Commission bids to clear adult social care of legal anomalies

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