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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.
Whilst Schools and Academies exist to educate and inspire young people, their primary obligation is their protection. Keeping Children Safe in Education (“KCSIE”) is at the heart of everything that educational institutions do and impacts on every decision, however big or small.
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This webinar looks at the three key themes in the decision, and is aimed at sports & social clubs (including safeguarding officers).
The Department for Education published the draft 2022 version of Keeping Children Safe in Education. A few changes caught the eye and the one that most of us in education are discussing relates to a new set of text that suggested checking the online presence of job applicants.
Watch now on-demand our Child Abuse & Social Care Forum.
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.
Acting on a claim for alleged abuse by mother, mother’s partner, and foster carers. The claimant alleged the defendant negligently failed to remove her from her mother’s care, negligently placed her with foster carers and a general mismanagement in care.
Acting on a claim of allegedly inappropriate handling of personal data under the Data Protection Act 1998.
Creating an innovative mechanism for Criminal Court watching briefs in 2015, allowing greater costs management within the context of other group actions. Creating an estimated saving for our clients of over £100,000.
Representing a local authority at an Inquest following the death of a Looked After Child in a Young Offenders' institute.
Advising in some of the most important social care cases in recent years including the Waterhouse Inquiry, Victoria Climbié, Fiona Pilkington and Khyra Ishaq.
In June 2020 the University of Birmingham published a research briefing exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child protection practice.
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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.
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.
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