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Challenges for organisations working with children are rapidly growing. Baby P shone a bright light on safeguarding generally, as well as leading to unprecedented levels of care applications and continuing structural reform. Our specialists understand the blurring of demarcation lines and responsibilities between professionals in health, education and social care and the issues these bring. We offer pragmatic, inclusive, sensitive and specialist advice through alignment of your resources and specialists.
The beginning of Spring 2020 saw the Supreme Court give judgment in two important cases concerning the principle of vicarious liability.
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Last month the government published the latest annual update on the numbers of looked after children.
The Courts are slowly accepting that these cases are very much now in the mainstream of litigation, they still do have their quirks which many judges consider separate them from the pool of general personal injury litigation.
The Children Act 1989 imposes a statutory duty on Local Authorities for Looked After and certain other young people as they prepare for adulthood.
Browne Jacobson LLP’s ‘excellent’ practice has ‘second-to-none’ expertise in child abuse claims and is ‘one of the leading firms in this field’.
Highly experienced and very well respected in the field of child abuse compensation claims.
Following an Ofsted investigation, it was found that Freiston Hall, an independent school in Lincolnshire, was operating illegally. The school was found to be unregistered and unsafe but had been accepting £1,200 per week per child.
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It was announced on 15 May 2019 that “more than 120 MPs have written to the government asking for an inquiry into how family courts in England and Wales treat victims of domestic violence.”
The first conviction of female genital mutilation (FGM) has resulted in a 13 year jail sentence for the child’s mother.
In an era where technological advances are changing the face of how we communicate, the protection of children and young adults remains a challenge for all.
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