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, Mental Health, Workforce
Court of Protection adds weight to social worker evidence in mental capacity assessments
Adults, Mental Health, Workforce
Government urges social workers to reassess cases for deprivations of liberty following Supreme Court ruling
Adults, Mental Health, Workforce
Supreme Court ruling heralds sharp rise in Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards cases
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