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

Leicester nursing home deaths: teenager arrested

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Social worker banned after child pornography conviction

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Queen’s Speech: Looked-after children and adult care reforms

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Record disability discrimination payout for sacked gardener

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Legal update: courts confirm councils’ power to protect vulnerable adults

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Children, Legal

Asylum children beg and sell sex to raise money for legal advice

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Legal, Workforce

Social worker struck off for breaching user’s confidence

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Most pensioners have not planned for loss of capacity

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Legal, Workforce

Experts urge fast-track conduct cases for convicted practitioners: have your say

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Children, Legal, Mental Health

Deaths in custody reach 600 a year

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Legal, Workforce

Doubts over single equality commission on eve of launch

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Legal, Workforce

Doubts over single equality commission on eve of launch

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Children, Legal, Workforce

Second Welsh social worker struck off by Care Council for Wales

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health, Workforce

DNA evidence convicted social worker of sex with client

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Legal, Workforce, Children

Thinking of blowing the whistle?

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Legal, Workforce

End council injury payout, say lawyers

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