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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, Mental Health, Workforce
Children’s services could be hit by deprivation of liberty burden after High Court ruling
Children, Workforce, Stand Up For Social Work
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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce
Exceptional legal costs imposed on council in unlawful deprivation of liberty case
Adults, Mental Health, Workforce
Court of Appeal ruling means streamlined deprivation of liberty process is fatally flawed
Adults, Mental Health, Workforce
Judge makes second call for Supreme Court to reconsider Cheshire West due to “serious confusion” in law
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