The Supreme Court last week allowed an appeal over the Scottish Government's controversial 'Named Persons' scheme for the wellbeing of children. AllanNorman explains why. Back in 2013, I was asked by the ...
Last month the President of the Family Division said the state had "washed its hands" over a lack of legal aid for parents with learning disabilities who faced the removal of their child. AllanNorman analyses ...
AllanNorman analyses the status of 'guidance' and the wider implications of a 2012 High Court ruling, including for the childcare field. In the beginning was section 7, Local Authority Social Services ...
AllanNorman analyses the status of 'guidance' and the wider implications of a 2012 High Court ruling, including for the childcare field. In the beginning was section 7, Local Authority Social Services ...
AllanNorman considers how assessments of need without significant harm are treated under 'Working Together 2013’ and ls left distinctly inimpressed. I do not like the new ‘Working Together’ on assessments ...
Human rights appear to have been airbrushed from the Government’s streamlined version of the ‘Working Together’ guidance for safeguarding children, writes AllanNorman. Working Together to Safeguard Children ...