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

John Hutton announces bill to scrap Child Support Agency

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Legal

Discrimination Law Handbook (Second edition)

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Children, Legal

Negligence claims in child protection cases

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Adults, Children, Legal

Department of Health calls on councils to avoid discriminating against parents with learning disabilities

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Children, Legal

Social worker struck off over indecent photographs of children and offensive website, General Social Care Council rules

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

UK’s first specialist drug and alcohol court to start next year

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Adults, Legal

Community care assessments should be left to social workers…not lawyers

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Adults, Legal, Children

More people getting civil legal help but services must be more accessible, Legal Services Commission says

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Legal, Mental Health

Rosie Winterton reinstates Mental Health Bill plan to scrap therapeutic treatment test

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Legal, Workforce

Career Clinic

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MPs slam legal aid reform threat to services for vulnerable children and families

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Adults, Children, Workforce, Legal

Temporary protection of vulnerable adults listing ‘incompatible’ with human rights law, care workers to argue in new challenge

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Cornwall agrees pioneering county-wide legal aid network

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Children, Legal

Family lawyers shun new fee plan

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Adults, Children, Legal

The Risk Factor: Homelessness, hospitals and the law

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Children, Legal

Family law specialists unimpressed by legal aid reform plans

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