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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.
Welcome to our quarterly social care newsletter.
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Sir James Munby, who retires soon, is known as a fearless judge and an advocate for change. In this article we take a look at some of his judgments from the last decade that have had a significant impact on social care.
Sarah Erwin-Jones and James Arrowsmith of our abuse team will provide you with a background on pre-action protocols, how your organisation can be preparing for them, and how you can be ready, in the unfortunate event that a claim is made against your organisation, to handle it as quickly and compassionately as possible.
Sarah Erwin-Jones and James Arrowsmith of our abuse handling team will provide you with a background on pre-action protocols
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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.
The recent introduction of the new Inspections of Local Authority Children’s Services (ILACS) system has been met with some trepidation from the sector.
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The Government has rejected the proposal that social workers who do not report suspected child abuse should be subject to criminal charges at individual and local authority level.
The Ofsted Annual Report for 2016/17 shows that whilst there is still clear room for improvement for children’s services and social care providers, there is a clear upward trend in the quality of service that is provided to children in need.
As the modern workplace continues to evolve, so too must the principles of vicarious liability.
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