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, Children

Authorities face more successful claims after ‘lottery rapist’ case

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Legal, Children

Law Lords back compensation cases for abuse after six years

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Legal, Children

Jack Straw announces merger of NOMS and Prison Service

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Children, Legal

Slough returns ‘raid’ children to their families

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Children, Legal

LEGAL CASE NOTES: R (S) V SUTTON LBC

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Legal, Mental Health

Geoffrey Hodgkins case: Inquest begins into restraint death

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Adults, Children, Legal, Workforce

Health and Social Care Bill: human rights amendment fails

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Legal, Children, Workforce

Lords criticise GP-style social work practices

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Children, Legal

Man sues Doncaster for failure to protect in groundbreaking case

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Children, Legal

Paediatrician David Southall struck off medical register

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Legal, Workforce

Why don’t negligent parties foot the bill for victims’ care?

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Child employment laws criticised as outdated and inconsistent

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health, Workforce

New equality commission slams government green paper

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Children, Adults, Legal

Every Disabled Child Matters: Families denied short break rights

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Legal, Adults

Leicester nursing home deaths: Man charged with murder

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Legal, Adults

Leicester nursing home murder probe: Police name dead residents

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