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, Workforce

Judge criticises social workers for not challenging police

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Adults, Legal

Man jailed for fraudulently receiving £100,000 in direct payments

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Adults, Workforce, Legal

Practice standards for best interests assessors launched

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Social workers should have power of entry to find abuse, MPs tell ministers

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Adults, Legal

Social workers given legal advice on Mental Capacity Act

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Adults, Legal, Workforce

Legal update: the perils of ignoring best practice guidance in social care

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Adults, Legal

Ministers cool on giving social workers powers of entry in abuse cases

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Adults, Legal

Parliamentary probe into social care law overhaul begins

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

How the law decides responsibility for funding mental health care

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Adults, Workforce, Legal

Council breached equality duty in setting care home fees

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Adults, Legal

Guide to councils’ new deprivation of liberty duties in hospitals

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Legal, Workforce

Stabbed social worker case exposes duties to staff in partner agencies

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Legal

New minimum standards introduced for social workers

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health, Workforce

Supreme Court: Councils must justify personal budget totals

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Adults, Legal, Mental Health

Social workers ‘may need powers of entry to stop abuse’

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Adults, Workforce, Legal, Mental Health

Safeguarding threshold ‘risks leaving adults unprotected’

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