Sentences with phrase «by local authority social»

Some of what I am advising a parent to do, for example, may have been said already by local authority social workers but they have been unable to hear or accept it.

If there were truly issues surrounding consent and child protection, then of course the state has a duty to investigate, but given that Kerry and Mark have been deemed perfectly capable of parenting by another local authority social services department it is difficult to see this as anything but a deliberate restriction of freedoms based solely on Kerry having a mild learning disability.

Not exact matches

That moment triggered a series of responses and counter responses by authorities and residents, as well as local and national clergy that shaped two weeks of protest and clarified camps that were largely defined by social and religious location.

How could Party leaders be consistent with the values (fiscal restraint, social conservatism — e.g., high moral code) they have professed for 30 years and nominate someone with zero performance in reducing expenditures even on a local level, someone tainted by giving and receiving political favors as a Commissioner on the Port Authority, and someone linked for 20 years by business and marriage to mobster activities?

By working in close liaison with the UK Border Agency (UKBA), JobCentres, social services and local authorities, welfare advisors serve as powerful advocates for torture survivors.

On the other hand, these geographic and demographic attributes made it possible and necessary that the central authorities care about social issues and locals» personal concerns in accordance with rules — Confucianism, Taoism etc. — that were acknowledged by all.

Decisions on how much to charge tenants are made by registered social landlords, following dialogue between local authorities and housing associations.

The conference, and the new report, is to aid local authorities in developing their local child poverty strategies to meet the need generated by social security cuts and reforms, and to look at the opportunities they have to make progress on poverty prevention and reduction.

The local authority estimates, produced by Donald Hirsch of Loughborough University, are contained in a new report on how local authorities are trying to tackle child poverty at a time of social security cuts and upheaval.

It comes as it emerged ministers will tomorrow announce that local authorities will be allowed to raise council tax bills by 6 % over the next two years to help raise cash for social care.

Powerful new partnerships with the common aim of achieving a more environmentally and economically sustainable future can be forged by community action groups and local authorities - which often regard each other with mutual suspicion and mistrust according to social scientists.

The party said local authorities must be sanctioned to create more social housing and address the rural housing crisis by abandoning national targets.

a. where social benefits are widely available and highly supported by local or governmental authorities.

Research by leading disability charities on the social care crisis has found that 34 % of working aged disabled people said that local authority cuts to their social care has prevented them from working or volunteering.

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said data in the House of Commons library shows that local authority spending on adult social care has been cut by # 1.8 bn since 2009/10.

Social and religious segregation is rising, aided in part by the current government's commitment to free schools — state - funded schools that are outside of local authority control.

The researchers suggest that local authorities could therefore counteract social discrimination by diagnosing and removing signs of disorder and decay in public environments.

We lose a lot of money again (which we do not have); and we lose lot enormous social capital (all the connections to the marginalized kids and families in our local neighborhood) because of this decision that was made by local authorities of the city of Berlin, claiming to have no money for initiatives like us (we are not the only ones suffering from such decisions).

It reveals huge variation among local authorities, which can not be explained by the size of a local authority or its social or geographical characteristics.

The role of employers and business is vital, but this should complement the expertise provided by careers professionals, local / combined authorities and other social partners.

His words echo a report on SEND provision at local authorities by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission, which oversees health and social care.

Last week, the UAE government said BlackBerry devices in their country were violating security and social standards by allowing users to communicate without being monitored by local authorities.

This means, in effect, that priority is given to dogs in stray kennels and pounds via a Local Authority Officer, dogs threatened with a court destruction order via a Court or Police Officer, dogs referred by Veterinary practitioners having been signed over for euthanasia, dogs referred by Social Services or other Authority on behalf of a client or dogs referred by a GP or NHS facility on behalf of a patient.

In these instances we need to be contacted by a Local Authority, Court, Police, Veterinary practice, Social worker or NHS.

The format of the Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans — the documents specifying a child's special educational, health and social care needs — used by different local authorities also varied significantly, with ramifications for parents and presenting particular challenges for those who advise them.

However in the thousands of situations where there is no LPA in force, and often no next of kin it can fall on the local authority, usually after being alerted to the need by a social services team, to become «financial guardians» for these vulnerable adults.

The tragedy has highlighted the divisions in society and raised many questions including issues as to: access to justice and legal funding, as the tenants were unable to obtain legal aid for advice due to the legal aid cuts; the legal protection of tenants both in private and social housing; the inability of council tenants to enforce or seek to have enforced basic fitness standards under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and Housing Act 2004 (HHSRSA), and the purchase of housing stock by local authorities.

Judicial review of unlawful decisions made by the Mental Health Second Tier Tribunal, NHS Trusts, Social Services and Local Authorities.

The defendant operated within a particular sector, that of social rented housing, which was not simply subject to detailed regulation but was permeated by state control and influence with a view to meeting the Government's aims for affordable housing, and in which RSLs worked side by side with, and could be said to take the place of, local authorities.

She said of the case, which involved judges at an unnamed family court and social workers employed by an unnamed council: «It is difficult to view the justices as having been independent and impartial if, as happened here, they simply adopted the local authority's analysis of what their findings and reasons might comprise.

It should be noted that the requirement for providers to register with Ofsted was considered by some to be an unnecessary burden and a barrier to making the most of these changes, so the proposed removal of this requirement is likely to be welcomed and encourage more local authorities to consider different ways of delivering children's social care.

Given that he was in the UK in breach of the immigration laws, he could only be provided with accommodation and related support by a local authority as a social service if that were necessary to avoid a breach of his human rights (Sch 3, NIAA 2002).

The decision of the High Court in R (Binomugisha) v Southwark LBC makes it difficult for a local social services authority to refuse to accommodate a failed asylum seeker who makes what purports to be a fresh asylum or human rights claim to remain in the UK if: (i) the individual is one of the more vulnerable individuals who, as asylum seekers, were accommodated by local authorities; and (ii) the purported fresh claim is not manifestly unfounded.

In the court's view there can be no legal gap between health and social care provision provided by the local authority under NAA 1948 «as a last resort» since «the secretary of state has put in place a structure which requires the PCT to take account of the social services authority's statutory competence so that the resulting decision will define the services which the social services authority is obliged to provide».

The main thrust of her appeal was that in the light of the incorporation of the Convention into domestic law, by virtue of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) coming into force in October 2000, a local authority may owe a duty of care to a parent of a child when exercising, through social workers, its duties to protect children from their parents by placing the children on the child protection register.

Protection is currently provided to care home residents by a variety of means, notably the comprehensive regulatory system created by the Care Standards Act 2000, which is complemented by the work of local authority social services departments.

Social workers depending on their area of specialization are usually employed by health centers, private nursing homes, local education authorities and charities.

We are working with a Local Authority in the Home Counties who are hoping to reduce their dependency on agency social workers (childrens») by recruiting 30 - 40 permanent social workers in 2018/2019.

Government guidance to local authorities on family and friends care states that housing authorities and registered social landlords should have policies that recognise the importance of the role performed by family and friends carers, and that whenever possible family and friends carers living in social housing should be given appropriate priority to move to more suitable accommodation if this will prevent the need for a child to become looked after.

About two months went by and then I had a phone call from my social worker who told me that the local authority had a little boy in mind for me.

The proposed legislation would ensure that education; health and social care services are jointly planned and commissioned by local authorities and health services working together.

If a social worker was involved in making the arrangements for the child to live with you it could be that the child is actually «looked after» by the local authority, even if they've since said that it's a «private arrangement» between you and the parents.

The social worker's assessment and recommendations for services must be approved by a designated manager in the local authority.

Following acceptance of a referral by the local authority children's social care service, a social worker should lead a multi-agency assessment under section 17 of the Children Act 1989.

Finding therapeutic help for children with emotional, behaviour and mental health problems can be found by contacting an independent play therapist or practitioner (for which you will have to pay a fee) or by using a therapist whose services are fully or partly funded by local authority children's, education, social, or health services, a charity or some other agency.