Sentences with phrase «into local authority care»

This shows that despite many carers stepping in to care for children who would have otherwise gone into local authority care, only one in ten feel they're getting the support they need.

It was reported that Connor might be placed on the child protection register, or that an application might be made under ChA 1989, s 31 to take him into local authority care to enforce his weight loss and safeguard his health (The Sunday Times, 25 February 2007).

Sadly, for this group of homeless people, problems of anti-social behaviour could be traced back through a lifetime of exclusion, characterised by traumatic childhood experiences, including parental addiction, bereavement, going into local authority care, neglect and physical and sexual abuse.

Where better engagement is taking place, local authorities are also experiencing cost - savings, through more children being placed with fathers and paternal relatives, instead of being taken into local authority care.

Not exact matches

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

Under the provisions of the poor laws, poor law guardians and juvenile courts were given powers to commit children into the care of local authorities.

The government will measure the efficiently of local authorities by measuring the average time taken for a child to be adopted once put into care, the proportion of children who wait longer for adoption than they should, and the average time taken for an adopter to be found.

Accountability and control will move out of the obscure network of Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities, and into the hands of recognisable, visible members of the community: that is, local GPs, working with local nurses and hospital consultants.

If the threats have escalated into actions that have harmed a cat you care for, contact your local authorities to report the crime and see our information on what to do if cats you care for have been harmed or killed.

Where a local authority wishes to take a child into care there is a clearly set out statutory regime with well established legal principles governing the applications.

• (a) and (b) do not directly relate to the parent's statement; • (c) a legal practitioner is entitled to advise a client of (i) the provisions and import of s 98 of the 1989 Act and (ii) the ability of the police and / or a co-accused to make application for disclosure into the criminal proceedings of statements, reports and documents filed in the care proceedings; • (d) it is wholly inappropriate and potentially a contempt of court, however, for a legal practitioner to advise a client not to comply with an order made in care proceedings; • (e) it is wholly inappropriate and potentially a contempt of court for a legal practitioner to advise a client not to give a full, accurate and comprehensive response to the findings of fact sought by a local authority in the threshold criteria document.

The issue in R (M) v Birmingham CC [2009] EWHC 688 (Admin) was whether a local authority had complied with its general disability equality duties despite not having consciously taken them into account when assessing a disabled person's community care needs and making service provision decisions based on those needs.

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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.

While the particular issue should not now recur since as from 1 October 2007 a National Framework for NHS Continuing Health Care And NHS - Funded Nursing Care (the NHS National Framework) requires local authorities and PCTs to agree a dispute resolution procedure which would not in the first instance require proceedings in court, the case nevertheless does provide some valuable insight into the scope of judicial review and the legal and constitutional standing of PCTs, in relation to local social services authorities.

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Research undertaken as part of the Inquiry including a freedom of information request submitted to all English local authorities found that 163 children in care under a voluntary arrangement have been placed with foster carers who are already approved as suitable adopters since foster for adoption legislation came into force three years ago.

14.03.2012, Cathy Ashley, Family Rights Group Chief Executive, has spoken out against government plans to draw up score cards for the speed with which local authorities are placing children for adoption... 06.03.2012, New film helps families and professionals deal with child protection conferences... 09.02.2012, In response to the record numbers of children being referred into care, Cathy Ashley, Chief Executive of Family Rights Group commented...

«Secondly, our work shows that local authorities are still not fully exploring and supporting alternative family and friend options such as placing the children into the care of a grandparent, aunt or uncle, older sibling or close friend who can give the child the security, continuity and love they so desperately need.

Kinship carers step in to save children from going into care, but often face isolation and are left to struggle alone, frequently without any financial or practical support from local authorities.

The local authority should integrate the Lifelong Links plan into the child's care plan and social workers should work with the young person and their support network during the young person's time in care, during their transition to independence and into adulthood.

However it is true that approximately 70 % of the children that come into the care of the local authority will have special educational needs (SEN).