Virtual Legal Seminars Series Date: 08th May 2024 Venue: Virtual online via Zoom Time: 10am- 4pm Cost: see below The ethos of the Coroner’s Court process is to put the family at the heart of the process, despite this the Coroner Court process can feel very unfair and difficult at times for family… Continue reading
Do you have any legal or social care training needs, to be delivered before the end of the financial year? Or for the new financial year. Then can Kingsley Knight Training help empower, educate and enhance your social care practitioners’ legal and social care skills. We have over 25 years… Continue reading
Virtual Legal Seminars Series The President of the Family Division has expressed a need for a “radical reset,” that is, a change of culture to reduce delay and for proceedings to be issued only after all pre-proceedings steps have been explored. Understand what this means in practice by attending our first… Continue reading
The aim of the pilot is to introduce a presumption that legal bloggers and accredited media may report on what they see and hear during family court cases, subject to strict rules of anonymity. “Openness and confidentiality are not irreconcilable, and each is achievable. The aim is to enhance public… Continue reading
Act Without Delay Recent case decisions by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (the Ombudsman) have highlighted some of the points we made in our previous legal blog, which highlighted good practice guidance on how to avoid complaints escalating to the Ombudsman. You can find our previous legal blog… Continue reading
January 2024 There has been a longstanding call for greater transparency in the Family Court. Greater openness and public scrutiny enables an increase in the confidence in the Family Court and decisions made in family proceedings. Steps towards transparency. Since 2009 accredited reporters and more recently legal bloggers have been… Continue reading
Good practice guidance relating to complaints made against Children Services. In a recent training session, I was requested to clarify what happens if someone wants to complain against a decision made by children social care services. So this legal blog is about the complaints process. This legal blog is intended… Continue reading
Helpful tips on how to achieve the PLO statutory timeframe. The Public Law Outline (PLO) The PLO will be very familiar to those practitioners involved in Public Law Children Act Care Proceedings. For those unfamiliar or new to this area, the PLO provides a template for case management of care… Continue reading
April 2023 The government has established the National Age Assessment Board to strengthen age assessments of small boat arrivals and make decisions more consistent and robust. Age Assessments Age Assessments are presently undertaken by local authority social workers. They are required if there is a dispute as to whether the… Continue reading
April 2023 The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) form part of the Mental Capacity Act, introduced in 2009 to protect the rights of people who lack capacity to consent to their arrangements which could amount to a deprivation of their liberty. Why the change from DoLS to Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)… Continue reading
